1918

300
ORDERS IN COUNCIL
complainant to pay all or part of the expenses of the prosecution, the
amount being specified in the order.
(3) In these respective cases the Court may, if it thinks fit, order
that the whole or such pox-tion as the Court thinks fit of the expenses
so paid be paid over to the complainant or to the accused (as the case
may be).
(4) In all cases the reasons of the Court for making any such order
shall be x*ecorded in the Minutes.
punishment of 64. Where any person is sentenced by the Supreme Court to suffer
death. the punishment of death, the Judge shall forthwith send a report of the
sentence, with a copy of the Minutes of Proceedings and notes of evidence
in the case, and with any observations he thinks fit, to His Majesty’s
Minister in China or Corea as the case may be.
The sentence shall not be carried into execution without the direction
of His Majesty’s Minister in writing under his hand.
If His Majesty’s Minister does not direct that the sentence of death
be carried into execution, he shall direct what punishment in lieu of the
punishment o’f death is to be inflicted on the person convicted, and the
person convicted shall be liable to be so punished accordingly.
Prisons and 65.—(1) The Judge of the Supreme Court may by general order,
pums men s. approve(j ()V the Secretary of State, prescribe the manner in which and
the prisons in China or Corea at which punishments passed by any Court
or otherwise awarded under this Order are to be carried into execution.
(2) The warrant of any Court shall be sufficient authority to any
person to whom it is directed to receive and detain the person therein
named in any prison so prescribed.
(3) For the purposes of this Article “ China” includes places within
the limits of the Weihaiwei Order in Council, 1901.
imprisonment 66.—(1) Where an offender is sentenced to imprisonment, and the
Majesty’s Supreme Court thinks it expedient that the sentence be carried into effect
dominions. within His Majesty’s dominions, and the offender is accordingly, under
Section 7 of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, sent for imprisonment to
a place in His Majesty’s dominions, the place shall be either Hongkong,
or a place in some other part of His Majesty’s dominions, the Govern¬
ment whex-eof consents that offenders may be sent thither under thisArticle.
(2) The Supreme Court may, by warrant under the hand of a Judge
and the seal of the Court, cause the offender to be sent to Hongkong, or
other such place as afoi-esaid, in order that the sentence may be there
carried into effect accordingly.
(3) The warrant shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom
it is directed to receive and detain the person therein named, and to
carry him to and deliver him up at the place named, according to the
warrant.
puiifshm°e°,t9 W A Judge of the Supreme Court may, if he thinks fit,
eport to the Secretary of State or to the Minister in China or in Corea,
.s the case may be, recommending a mitigation or x*emission of any
punishment awarded by any Court, and thereupon the punishment may
be mitigated or remitted by the Secretary of State or Minister.
(2) Nothing in this Order shall affect His Majesty’s pi*erogative of
pardon.
Inquests.
inquests. 68. (1) The Court shall have and discharge all the powers and
duties appertaining to the office of Coroner in England, in relation to
deaths of British subjects happening in the district of the Court.
(2) The Court may also exercise the said powers in relation to
deaths of any persons having happened at sea on board British ships