§ MR. ASHLEY (Lancashire, Blackpool)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies on what ground chapter 33 of the Indian Code of Criminal Procedure has been excepted from the orders in council extending the operation of that code to British East Africa.
§ * MR. CHURCHILLHad the chapter referred to by the hon. Member not been 858 omitted, cases of serious crime by European British subjects would have had to be tried at Bombay. A draft ordinance is now in course of preparation dealing comprehensively with all the courts of the East Africa Protectorate, and when this has become law it is proposed to replace the Indian Procedure codes by similar codes founded on their provisions and enacted by local ordinance.