Courts (Colonial) Jurisdiction Act 1874 (1874 c. 27)

1 Short title.

This Act may be cited for all purposes as The Courts (Colonial) Jurisdiction Act 1874.

2 Definition of term “colony.”

For the purposes of this Act,

[F1] Words substituted by S.R. & O. 1937/230 (Rev. X, p. 545: 1937, p. 963), Sch. Pt. II

[F2] Words repealed by Burma Independence Act 1947 (11 & 12 Geo. 6 c. 3), s. 5, Sch. 2 Pt. I and Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. VII

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[F3] S. 2A repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1

3 At trials in any colonial courts by virtue of Imperial Acts, courts empowered to pass sentences as if crimes had been committed in the colony.

When, by virtue of any Act of Parliament now or hereafter to be passed, a person is tried in a court of any colony for any crime or offence committed upon the high seas or elsewhere out of the territorial limits of such colony and of the local jurisdiction of such court, or if committed within such local jurisdiction made punishable by that Act, such person shall, upon conviction, be liable to such punishment as might have been inflicted upon him if the crime or offence had been committed within the limits of such colony and of the local jurisdiction of the court, and to no other, anything in any Act to the contrary notwithstanding: