the place where the witnesses for the prosecution and the defence are to be found, and to all the circumstances of the case, such removal is conducive to the interests of justice, such person, if not prosecuted or acquitted in the Federated Malay States, may be sent back free of cost in like manner as if he had been returned to the Federated Malay States in pursuance of Part I of the Imperial Act.

23. Nothing in this Enactment contained shall affect any provision of the Criminal Procedure Code in force in any of the Federated Malay States relating to the service or execution in any of the said States of any summons or warrant issued in any other of the said States.

To 4.B., Deputy Commissioner of Police, and [names of other particular officers], and all other police officers of the Federated Malay States, and also

to all the persons to whom the within warrant is directed. You are hereby authorized to execute this warrant within the Federated Malay States, and to apprehend the said before the Magistrate at

State of

Federated Malay States

named herein, and to bring him or some other Magistrate in the

to be dealt with according to law.

Resident. Magistrate.

RULE of the Supreme Court of Fiji to provide for the Recognition of Notarial Acts, &c., done by British Diplomatic and Consular Officers.

[Approved by the Legislative Council, October 22, 1915.]

1. THE following Rule may be cited as "Rule of the Supreme Court, 1915," and shall apply to all proceedings taken in causes or matters pending on or after the day on which it becomes binding pursuant to the provisions of section 27 of "The Supreme Court Ordinance, 1875."

2. All notarial acts which any notary public can do within the Colony, and all examinations, affidavits, declarations, affirmations, and attestations of honour in causes or matters depending in the Supreme Court may be sworn, taken, administered, or done before or by any British Ambassador, Envoy, Minister, Chargé d'Affaires, or Secretary of Embassy or Legation exercising his functions in any foreign country, or any British Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Acting Consul, Pro-Consul, or Consular Agent exercising his functions in any foreign place, and the Chief Justice and other officers of the Supreme Court shall take judicial notice of the seal or signature, as the case may be, of any such person as aforesaid, attached, appended, or subscribed to any such notarial act, examination, affidavit, declaration, affirmation, or attestation of honour, or to any other deed or document.

Judge's Chambers, Suva, August 30, 1915.

C. S. DAVSON, Chief Justice.

ORDINANCE of the Government of the Colony of the Gambia to regulate Copyright.

[No. 9.]

[July 15, 1915.]

WHEREAS by a Proclamation given at Government House, Bathurst, by the Governor of the Colony of the Gambia, dated the 1st day of July, in the year of our Lord 1912, an Act of the

Imperial Parliament, shortly entitled "The Copyright Act, 1911,"* came into operation in the Colony and Protectorate of the Gambia on the said date;

And whereas sections 11 and 12 of the above-named Act of the Imperial Parliament apply to the United Kingdom and not to the said Colony or Protectorate;

Be it therefore enacted, &c. :

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Copyright Ordinance, 1915."

2.-(1.) If any person knowingly

(a.) Makes for sale or hire any infringing copy of a work in which copyright subsists; or

(b.) Sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade exposes or offers for sale or hire, any infringing copy of any such work; or

(c.) Distributes infringing copies of any such work either for the purposes of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright; or

(d.) By way of trade exhibits in public any infringing copy of any such work; or

(e.) Imports for sale or hire into the Colony or Protectorate any infringing copy of any such work;

he shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance, and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 40s. for every copy dealt with in contravention of this section, but not exceeding 501. in respect of the same transaction; or, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, either to such fine or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding two months.

(2.) If any person knowingly makes or has in his possession any plate for the purpose of making infringing copies of any work in which copyright subsists, or knowingly and for his private profit causes any such work to be performed in public without the consent of the owner of the copyright, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 501.; or, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, either to such fine or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding two months.

(3.) The Court before which any such proceedings are taken may, whether the alleged offender is convicted or not, order that all copies of the work or all plates in the possession of the alleged offender, which appear to it to be infringing copies or plates for the purpose of making infringing copies, be destroyed or delivered up to the owner of the copyright, or otherwise dealt with as the Court may think fit.

3. Any person aggrieved by a summary conviction of an offence under the foregoing provisions of this Ordinance may appeal to the Supreme Court against the conviction, subject to the following conditions:

*Vol. CIV, page 13.

(a.) Notice of such appeal shall be given to the Clerk of Courts at Bathurst, or, in the case of a conviction by a Native Tribunal in the Protectorate, to the Commissioner of the District, within fourteen days from the date of conviction.

(b.) Security in a sum not exceeding 201. to meet the costs of the appeal shall be given to the satisfaction of the Judge of the Supreme Court, or the Police Magistrate, or two Justices of the Peace, or of such Commissioner as aforesaid.

ORDINANCE of the Government of the Colony of the Gambia to provide for the Recognition of Notarial Acts, &c., done by British Diplomatic and Consular Officers.

[No. 12.]

[August 27, 1915.]

In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this 27th day of August, 1915.

(L.S.) CECIL GWYN, Acting Governor.

Be it enacted by the Governor of the Colony of the Gambia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows, viz. :

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Foreign Affidavits Ordinance, 1915."

2. All affidavits and oaths, and all notarial acts in all causes or matters, whether depending in any of the Courts of the Colony or Protectorate or otherwise, may, in any foreign country, be sworn and taken before, or done by, any British Ambassador, Envoy, Minister, Chargé d'Affaires, Secretary of Embassy or Legation, Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Consular Agent, Acting Consul-General, Acting Consul, Pro-Consul, Acting ViceConsul, or Acting Consular Agent exercising his functions in such foreign place.

3. Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed, or subscribed thereon or thereto the seal and signature of any person authorized by the preceding section to administer an oath in testimony of any oath, affidavit, or act being administered, taken, or done by, or before him, shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the seal or signature being the seal or signature of that person, or of the official character of that person.

4. Whoever wilfully and corruptly swears falsely in any oath or affidavit taken or made in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of perjury in every case where, if he had so sworn in a judicial proceeding before any Court of competent jurisdiction in the Colony or Protectorate, he would be guilty of perjury.

5. Whoever forges, counterfeits, or fraudulently alters the seal or signature of any person authorized by or under this

Ordinance to administer an oath, or tenders evidence, or otherwise uses any affidavit having any seal or signature so forged or counterfeited or fraudulently altered, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or fraudulently altered, shall be guilty of felony, and liable on conviction to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding seven years.

6. Where any offence under this Ordinance is alleged to have been committed with respect to any affidavit, the Judge, Magistrate, or Commissioners of the Court of Requests, presiding in the Court before which the affidavit is produced, may order the affidavit to be impounded and kept in such custody, and for such time and on such conditions, as he or they shall think fit.

7. In this Ordinance "oath" includes affirmation and declaration.

"Affidavit" includes affirmation, statutory or other declaration, acknowledgment, examination, and attestation or protestation of honour.

"Swear" includes affirm, declare, and protest.

Passed in the Legislative Council this 24th day of August, in the year of our Lord 1915.

ORDINANCE of the Government of Hong Kong to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Companies.

[No. 58.]

[December 8, 1911.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows::

1.-(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as "The Companies Ordinance, 1911.”

(2.) This Ordinance applies to every company registered in this Colony either before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, and notwithstanding that the whole or part of its business is or may be carried on elsewhere.

(3.)* The Court shall not, in dealing with or making orders in respect of applications made to it under this Ordinance, take into consideration the fact that it may be difficult or impossible to enforce them.

PART I.-Constitution and Incorporation.

Prohibition of Large Partnerships.

2. No company, association, or partnership consisting of more than twenty persons shall be formed for the purpose of

*Repealed by section 6 (1) of "The Companies Ordinance, 1915." See page 583.