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FOREIGN JURISDICTION
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1909, No. 754
The Siam Okder-in-Coitncil, 1909
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of June, 1909
Lord President.
Lord Steward.
Earl Grey.
Earl Carrington.
Present:
Sir Frederick M. Darley.
Mr. Herbert Samuel.
Mr. C. E. H. Hobhouse.
Mr. Russell Rea.
Whereas by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, His
Majesty the King has power and jurisdiction within the dominions of the King of
Siam:
And whereas the exercise of the power and jurisdiction aforesaid is now
regulated by the Siam Order-in-Council, 1906:
And whereas by a Treaty between His Majesty the King and His Majesty
the King of Siam, signed in Bangkok on the 10th day of March, 1909, the
States of Kelantan, Tringganu, Kedah, Perlis, and the adjacent islands,
were transferred to the Government of His Majesty, the frontiers of the said
territories being defined in the Boundary Protocol annexed to the said Treaty:
And whereas by Article of the said Treaty it was agreed that the jurisdiction of
the Siamese International Courts, established by Article VIII. of the Treaty of the 3rd
September, 1883, between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the
King of Siam, should, under the conditions defined in the Jurisdiction Protocol
annexed to the said recited Treaty of the 10th March, 1909, and printed in the
Schedule to this Order, be extended to all British subjects in Siam registered at the
British Consulates before the date of the said Treaty, and that this system should
come to an end, and the jurisdiction of the International Courts should be trans¬
ferred to the ordinary Siamese Courts after the promulgation and the coming into
force of the Siamese codes, namely, the Penal Code, the Civil and Commercial Codes,
the Codes of Procedure, and the Law for Organization of Courts, and that all other
British subjects in Siam should be subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary Siamese
Courts under the conditions defined in the said Jurisdiction Protocol.
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this
behalf by “ The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890,” or otherwise in His Majesty vested,
is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby
ordered, as follows :—
1. This Order may be cited as “The Siam Order-in-Council, 1909,” and shall be
read as one with the “Siam Order-in-Council, 1906,” hereinafter called the
“Principal Order.”