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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1906 - SECT 67

Power of naval court to send a person sentenced to imprisonment home to undergo sentence.

67.(1) The powers of a naval court under section four hundred and eighty-three
of the principal Act (which deals with those powers) shall include a power to
send an offender sentenced by the court to imprisonment either to the United
Kingdom or to any British possession to which His Majesty by Order in Council
has applied this section, as appears to them most convenient for the purpose
of being imprisoned, and the court may take the same steps, and for that
purpose shall have the same powers, as respects the orders which may be given
to masters of ships as a consular officer has for the purpose of sending an
offender for trial under section six hundred and eighty-nine of the
principal Act, and subsections (2), (4), and (5) of that section shall apply
with the necessary modification.

(2) Any master of a ship to whose charge an offender is committed under this
section shall, on his ship's arrival in the United Kingdom or in a British
possession, as the case may be, give the offender into the custody of some
police officer or constable, and the offender shall be dealt with as if he had
been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment by a court of competent
jurisdiction in the United Kingdom or in the British possession, as the case
may be.

(3) His Majesty may by Order in Council apply this section to any British
possession the Legislature of which consents to that application.][

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