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689.(1) Whenever any complaint is made to any British consular officer (a)that any offence against property or person has been committed at any place, either ashore or afloat, out of Her Majesty's dominions by any master, [or seaman], who at the time when the offence was committed, or within three months before that time, was employed in any British ship; or (b)that any offence on the high seas has been committed by any master, [or seaman] belonging to any British ship, (2) The consular officer may order the master of any ship belonging to any subject of Her Majesty bound to the United Kingdom ... to receive and afford a passage and subsistence during the voyage to any such offender as aforesaid, and to the witnesses, so that the master be not required to receive more than one offender for every one hundred tons of his ship's registered tonnage, or more than one witness for every fifty tons of that tonnage; and the consular officer shall endorse upon the agreement of the ship such particulars with respect to any offenders or witnesses sent in her as the Board of Trade require. (3) Any master of a ship to whose charge an offender has been so committed shall, on his ship's arrival in the United Kingdom..., give the offender into the custody of some police officer or constable, and that officer or constable shall take the offender before a justice of the peace or other magistrate by law empowered to deal with the matter, and the justice or magistrate shall deal with the matter as in cases of offences committed upon the high seas. (4) If any master of a ship, when required by any British consular officer to receive and afford a passage and subsistence to any offender or witness, does not receive him and afford a passage and subsistence to him, or does not deliver any offender committed to his charge into the custody of some police officer or constable as hereinbefore directed, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding [#1,000]. (5) The expense of imprisoning any such offender and of conveying him and the witnesses to the United Kingdom ... in any manner other than in the ship to which they respectively belong, shall, where not paid as part of the costs of the prosecution, be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament. S.690 rep. by 1920 c.39 s.1(3) sch.; 1970 c.36 s.100 sch.5
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