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| CRIMINAL LUNATICS |
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AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE EXPENSES ATTENDANT UPON THE CONVICTION, OR THE ACQUITTAL ON THE GROUND OF INSANITY, OF CEYLONESE AND PERSONS RESIDENT IN CEYLON, IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY UNDER THE FOREIGN JURISDICTION ACTS.
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| Ordinance Nos, |
| 10 of 1889 |
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[8th October
, 1889 ]
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Lunatics (Expenses of Removal) Ordinance.
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The expenses attending conviction, or acquittal on the ground of insanity, of residents of Ceylon by courts exercising jurisdiction in foreign countries under the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts to be paid out of Consolidated Fund.
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2. If a person who is a native of, or ordinarily resident in, Ceylon commits an offence in a foreign country in which Her Majesty exercises jurisdiction over British subjects, and is either convicted, or is acquitted on the ground of insanity, by a competent court acting under the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts of the United Kingdom in such country, the expenses of his removal to the place in which he is to undergo his sentence or be confined as a criminal lunatic, and of his maintenance during his imprisonment or confinement, as the case may be, and any other expenses incident to his conviction, or to his acquittal on the ground of insanity, shall, as far as such expenses cannot be met out of the effects of such person under order of the court before which his trial takes place, be borne by the Government of Ceylon and paid out of the Consolidated Fund1 thereof.
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