For true title - page ci vol. in at s ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND PASSED IN THE SESSION HELD IN THE 37TH AND 38TH YEARS OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, BEING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. PRINTED BY BROWN CHAMBERLIN, LAW PRINTER (FOR CANADA) TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, ANNO DOMINI, 1874. An Act to regulate the Sentences imposed by Colonial [30th June 1874.] HEREAS by certain Acts of Parliament jurisdiction is Preamble. conferred on courts in Her Majesty's colonies to try persons charged with certain crimes or offences, and doubts have arisen as to the proper sentences to be imposed upon conviction of such persons; and it is expedient to remove such doubts: Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as The Courts Short title. (Colonial) Jurisdiction Act, 1874. 2. For the purposes of this Act, The term "colony" shall not include any places within the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands but shall include such territories as may for the time being be vested in Her Majesty by virtue of an Act of Parliament for the Government of India, and any plantation, territory, or settlement situate elsewhere within Her Majesty's dominions, and subject to the same local government; and for the purposes of this Act, all plantations, territories, and settlements under a central legislature shall be deemed to be one colony under the same local government. Definition of term "colony" to be passed, a person is tried in a court of any colony for any crime any colonial 3. When, by virtue of any Act of Parliament now or hereafter At trials in or offence committed upon the high seas or elsewhere out of the virtue of courts by territorial Imperial Acts, courts em- Courts (Colonial) Jurisdiction. territorial limits of such colony and of the local jurisdiction of such as if crimes able by that Act, such person shall, upon conviction, be liable to OTTAWA Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer (for Canada) ACTS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA, PASSED IN THE THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, AND IN THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SECOND PARLIAMENT, Begun and holden at Ottawa, on the fifth day of March, and closed by HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR FREDERICK TEMPLE, EARL OF DUFFERIN, GOVERNOR GENERAL. OTTAWA : PRINTED BY BROWN CHAMBERLIN, LAW PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. ANNO DOMINI, 1874. |