SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873 - SECT 26 Jurisdiction of court over offences under 1824 c.113.

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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873 - SECT 26

Jurisdiction of court over offences under 1824 c.113.

26. Any offence against this Act or the said enactments with which this Act is
to be construed as one, or otherwise in connexion with the slave trade, shall
for all purposes of and incidental to the trial and punishment of a person
guilty of such offence, and all proceedings and matters preliminary and
incidental to and consequential on such trial and punishment, and for all
purposes of and incidental to the jurisdiction of any court, constable, and
officer with reference to such offence, be deemed to have been committed
either in the place in which the offence was committed,..., or in any place in
which the person guilty of the offence may for the time being be, either in
Her Majesty's dominions, or in any foreign port or place in which Her Majesty
has jurisdiction; and the offence may be described in any indictment or other
document relating thereto as having been committed at the place where it was
wholly or partly committed, or as having been committed on the high seas or
out of Her Majesty's dominions, and the venue or local description in the
margin may be that of the place in which the trial is held.

Where any such offence is commenced at one place and completed at another, the
place at which such offence is to be deemed to have been committed shall be
either the place where the offence was commenced or the place where the
offence was completed.

Where a person being in one place is accessory to or aids or abets in any such
offence committed in another place, the place at which such offence is to be
deemed to have been committed shall be either the place in which the offence
was actually committed or the place where the offender was at the time of his
being so accessory, aiding, or abetting.

Where it appears to any court or the judge of any court having jurisdiction to
try any such offence that the removal of an offender charged with such offence
to some other place in Her Majesty's dominions for trial would be conducive to
the interests of justice, such court or judge may by warrant, or instrument in
the nature of a warrant, direct such removal, and such offender may be removed
and tried accordingly; and section two hundred and sixty-eight of the Merchant
Shipping Act, 1854, shall apply to the removal of an offender under this
section in the same manner as if the term "consular officer" in that section
included the court or judge making such warrant or instrument.

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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873 - SECT 26