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Title: Colonial Courts of Admiralty
State: Central
Year: 1890
.....in England, and shall have the same regard as that Court to international law and the comity of nations. (3) Subject to the provisions of this Act any enactment referring to a Vice-Admiralty Court, which is contained in an Act of the Imperial Parliament or in a Colonial law, shall apply to a Colonial Court of Admiralty, and be read as if the expression "Colonial Court of Admiralty" were therein, substituted for "Vice-Admiralty Court" or for other expressions respectively referring to such Vice-Admiralty Courts or the Judge thereof, and the Colonial Court of Admiralty shall have jurisdiction accordingly : Provided as follows:-- (a) Any enactment in an Act of the Imperial Parliament referring to the Admiralty jurisdiction of the High Court in England when applied to Colonial Court of Admiralty in a British possession, shall be read as if the name of that possession were therein substituted for England and Wales; and (b) A Colonial Court of Admiralty shall have under the Naval Prize Act, 1864, and under the Slave Trade Act, 1873, and any enactment relating to prize or the slave trade, the jurisdiction thereby conferred on a Vice-Admiralty Court and not the jurisdiction.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAdmiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849 Section 1
Title: Trial of Admiralty Offences in Colonies
State: Central
Year: 1849
If any person within any colony shall be charged with the commission of any treason, piracy, felony, robbery, murder, conspiracy, or other offence of what nature or kind so ever, committed upon the sea, or in any haven, river, creek, or place where the admiral or admirals have power, authority, or jurisdiction, or if any person charged with the commission of any such offence upon the sea on in any such haven, river, creek or place shall be brought for trial to any colony, then and in every such case all magistrates, justices of the peace, public prosecutors, juries, judges, courts, public officers, and other persons in such colony shall have and exercise, the same jurisdiction and authorities for inquiring of, trying, hearing, determining and adjudging such offences, and they are hereby respectively authorised, empowered, and required to institute and carry on all such proceedings for the bringing of such person so charged as aforesaid to trial, and for and auxiliary to and consequent upon, the trial of any such person for any such offence; wherewith he may be charged as aforesaid as by the law of such colony would and ought to have been had and exercised or instituted and carrie
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionColonial Courts of Admiralty (India) Act, 1891 Preamble 1
Title: Colonial Courts of Admiralty (India) Act, 1891
State: Central
Year: 1891
THE COLONIAL COURTS OF ADMIRALTY (INDIA) Act, 1891 [Act, No. 16 of 1891] [AS ON 1955] [14th May, 1891] PREAMBLE An Act to declare certain courts in India to be Colonial Courts of Admiralty. WHEREAS it is provided by the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act,1890, that the legislature of a British possession may by any colonial law declare any Court of unlimited civil jurisdiction in that possession to be a Colonial Court of Admiralty ; And whereas it is expedient, in pursuance of that provision, to declare certain Courts in India to be colonial Courts of Admiralty ; It is hereby enacted as follows :--
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAdmiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849 Section 3
Title: Provision, Etc., Where Death in the Colony, or at Sea, Etc., Follows from Injuries Inflicted on the Sea, Etc
State: Central
Year: 1849
Where any person shall die in any colony of any stroke, poisoning, or hurt, such person having been feloniously stricken, poisoned, or hurt upon the sea or in any haven, creek, or place where the admiral or admirals have power, authority, or jurisdiction, or at any place out of such colony, every offence committed in respect of any such case, whether the same shall amount to the offence of murder or of man slaughter, or of being accessory before the fact to murder, or after the fact to murder or manslaughter, may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in such colony, in the same manner and in all respects as if such offence had been wholly committed in that colony: and if any person in any colony shall be charged with any such offence as aforesaid in respect of the death of any person who, having been feloniously stricken, poisoned or otherwise hurt, shall have died of such stroke, poisoning, or hurt, upon the sea, or in any haven, river, creek or place where the admiral or admirals have power, authority or jurisdiction, such offence shall be held for the purpose of this Act to have been wholly committed upon the sea.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionColonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890 Section 3
Title: Power of Colonial Legislature as to Admiralty Jurisdiction
State: Central
Year: 1890
The legislature of a British possession may by any Colonial law:-- (a) declare any Court of unlimited civil jurisdiction, whether original or appellate, in that possession to be a Colonial Court of Admiralty, and provide for the exercise by such Court of its jurisdiction under this Act, and limit territorially, or otherwise, the extent of such jurisdiction; and (b) confer upon any inferior or subordinate Court in that possession such partial or limited Admiralty jurisdiction under such regulations and with such appeal (if any) as may seem fit: Provided that any such Colonial law shall not confer any jurisdiction which is not by this Act conferred upon a Colonial Court of Admiralty.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionColonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884 [Repealed] Repealing Act 1
Title: Colonial Prisoners Removal (Repeal) Act, 2001
State: Central
Year: 1884
THE COLONIAL PRISONERS REMOVAL (REPEAL) ACT, 2001 [Act, No. 12 of 2001] [9th May, 2001] PREAMBLE An Act to repeal the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows: -- 1. Short title This Act may be called the Colonial Prisoners Removal (Repeal) Act, 2001. 2. Repeal of Act 47 and 48 Vict., C. 31 The Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884 is hereby repealed.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionColonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890 Complete Act
Title: Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890
State: Central
Year: 1890
Preamble1 - THE COLONIAL COURTS OF ADMIRALTY ACT, 1890 Section1 - Short title Section2 - Colonial Courts of Admiralty Section3 - Power of Colonial legislature as to Admiralty jurisdiction Section4 - Reservation of Colonial law for Her Majesty's assent Section5 - Local Admiralty appeal Section6 - Admiralty appeal to the Queen in Council Section7 - Rules of Court Section8 - Droits of Admiralty and of the Crown Section9 - Power to establish Vice-Admiralty Court Section10 - Power to appoint a Vice-Admiral Section11 - Exception of Channel Islands and other possessions Section12 - Application of Act to Courts under Foreign Jurisdiction Acts Section13 - Rules for procedure in slave trade matters Section14 - Orders in Council Section15 - Interpretation Section16 - Commencement of Act Section17 - Abolition of Vice-Admiralty Courts Section18 - Repeal ScheduleI - FIRST SCHEDULE ScheduleII - SECOND SCHEDULE
List Judgments citing this sectionAdmiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849 Complete Act
Title: Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849
State: Central
Year: 1849
Preamble1 - ADMIRALTY OFFENCES (COLONIAL)ACT,1849 Section1 - Trial of Admiralty offences in colonies Section3 - Provision, etc., where death in the colony, or at sea, etc., follows from injuries inflicted on the sea, etc Section4 - Omitted Section5 - Interpretation of "colony
List Judgments citing this sectionCOLONIAL COURTS OF ADMIRALTY ACT, 1890 Section 4
Title: Reservation of Colonial law for Her Majesty's assent
State: Central
Year: 1890
Every Colonial law which is made in pursuance of this Act, or affects the jurisdiction of or practice or procedure in any Court of such possession in respect of the jurisdiction conferred by this Act, or alters any such Colonial law as above in this section mentioned, which has been previously passed, shall unless previously approved by Her Majesty through a Secretary of State, either be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon, or contain a suspending clause providing that such law shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's pleasure thereon has been publicly signified in the British possession in which it has been passed. 1[This section shall not apply to Indian laws2[* *].] ________________________ 1. Inserted by A. O. (P). 2. The words "or Burma laws" were repealed by the Burma Independence Act, 1947, S. 5(3) and Sch. II, Part I.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAdmiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849 Preamble 1
Title: Admiralty Offences (Colonial)act,1849
State: Central
Year: 1849
ADMIRALTY OFFENCES (COLONIAL) [Act, 1849 12 of 1849] [1st August, 1849] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the Prosecution and Trial in Her Majesty's Colonies of Offences committed within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty.
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