An Act to provide for the Prosecution and Trial in Her Majesty's Colonies of Offences committed within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty.
[1st August 1849]
WHEREAS by an [10 & 11 W. 3. c. 7.] Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled An Act for the more effectual Suppression of Piracy, it is enacted, that all Piracies, Felonies, and Robberies committed on the Sea, or in any Haven, River, Creek, or Place where the Admiral or Admirals have Power, Authority, or Jurisdiction, may be examined, inquired of, tried, heard, and determined, and adjudged, in any Place at Sea or upon the Land in any of His Majesty's Islands, Plantations, Colonies, Dominions, Forts, or Factories, to be appointed for that Purpose by the King's Commission, in the Manner therein, directed, and according to the Civil Law and the Method and Rules of the Admiralty : And whereas by an [46 G. 3. c. 54.] Act passed in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for the speedy Trial of Offences committed in distant Parts upon the Sea, it is enacted, that all Treasons, Piracies, Felonies, Robberies, Murders, Conspiracies, and other Offences of what Nature or Kind soever, committed upon the Sea, or in any Haven, River, Creek, or Place where the Admiral or Admirals have Power, Authority, or Jurisdiction, may be inquired of, tried, heard, determined, and adjudged, according to the common Course of the Laws of this Realm used for Offences committed upon the Land within this Realm, and not otherwise, in any of His Majesty's Islands, Plantations, Colonies, Dominions, Forts, or Factories under and by virtue of the King's Commission or Commissions under the Great Seal of Great Britain, to be directed to Commissioners in the Manner and with the Powers and Authorities therein provided : And whereas it is expedient to make further and better Provision for the Apprehension, Custody, and Trial in Her Majesty's Islands, Plantations, Colonies, Dominions, Forts, and Factories of Persons charged with the Commission of such Offences on the Sea, or in any such Haven, River, Creek, or Place as aforesaid :
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,
