§ MR. CAINE (Cornwall, Camborne)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, with reference to the recent Order conferring additional powers on the Governor-General of India in Council, whether he will state in what territories outside British India these powers will be operative, over what persons the jurisdiction will be exercised, and the circumstances which have rendered this measure necessary.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe territories outside British India in which the Order operates, or may hereafter operate, are stated in Article 2 of the Order of the 11th of June, 368 1902. The persons affected are British subjects and other persons in respect of whom the Governor-General in Council has jurisdiction by treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means. The consideration which led to the issue of the Order was that the Secretary of State was advised that it would, from a legal point of view, be more convenient to place the foreign jurisdiction exercised by the Governor-General in Council upon the basis of Imperial legislation and statutory orders.
§ LORD G. HAMILTONCertainly.