§ The ATTORNEY-GENERALI beg to move, in page 170, line 40, at the end, to insert:
(4) In the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, the expression a British court in a foreign country' shall, in relation to any part of India outside British India, include any person duly exercising on behalf of His Majesty any jurisdiction, civil or criminal, original or appellate, whether by virtue of an Order in Council or not.(5) Nothing in this Act shall he construed as limiting any right of His Majesty to determine by what courts British subjects and subjects of foreign countries shall be tried in respect of offences committed in Indian States.?The first of these two Sub-sections is to regularise the position of political officers under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act. The second Sub-section, No. 5, deals with a power which at present is exercised. to prevent the trial by State courts of British subjects for offences committed in the States. The right is claimed and exercised under paramountcy at the present time, but there is an in he rent right of the Crown to insist on British subjects being tried in British courts for offences committed outside British India if it is thought desirable for any reason. It was thought desirable to make that position plain by positive enactment.
§ Amendment agreed to