
That if any Person within any Colony shall be charged with the Commission of any Treason, Piracy, Felony, Robbery, Murder, Conspiracy, or other Offence, 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, or if any Person charged with the Commission of any such Offence upon the Sea, or in any such Haven, River, Creek, or Place shall be brought for Trial to any Colony, then and in every such Case all Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, public Prosecutors, Juries, Judges, Courts, public Officers, and other Persons in such Colony shall have and exercise the same Jurisdiction and Authorities for inquiring of, trying, hearing, determining, and adjudging such Offences, and they are hereby respectively authorized, empowered, and required to institute and carry on all such Proceedings for the bringing of such Person so charged as aforesaid to Trial, and for and auxiliary to and consequent upon the Trial of any such Person for any such Offence wherewith he may be charged as aforesaid, as by the Law of such Colony would and ought to have been had and exercised or instituted -and carried on by them respectively if such Offence had been committed, and such Person had been charged with having committed the same, upon any Waters situate within the Limits of any such Colony, and within the Limits of the local Jurisdiction of the Courts of Criminal Justice of such Colony.
II 
Provided always, and be it enacted, That if any Person shall be convicted before any such Court of any such Offence, such Pea-son so convicted shall be subject and liable to and shall suffer all such and the same Pains, Penalties, and Forfeitures as by any Law or Laws now in force Persons convicted of the same respectively would be subject and liable to in case such Offence had been committed, and were inquired of, tried, heard, determined, and adjudged, in England, any Law, Statute, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
III 
And be it enacted, That where any Person shall die in any Colony of any Stroke, Poisoning, or Hurt, such Person having been feloniously stricken, poisoned, or hurt upon the Sea, or in any Haven, River, Creek, or Place where the Admiral or Admirals have Power, Authority, or Jurisdiction, or at any Place out of such Colony, every Offence committed in respect of any such Case, whether the same shall amount to the Offence of Murder or of Manslaughter, or of being Accessory before the Fact to Murder, or after the Fact to Murder or Manslaughter, may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in such Colony in the same Manner in all respects as if such Offence had been wholly committed in that Colony; and that if any Person in any Colony shall be charged with any such Offence as aforesaid in respect of the Death of any Person who, having been feloniously stricken, poisoned, or otherwise hurt, shall have died of such Stroke, Poisoning, or Hurt upon the Sea, or in any Haven, River, Creek, or Place where the Admiral or Admirals have Power, Authority, or Jurisdiction, such Offence shall be held for the Purpose of this Act to have been wholly committed upon the Sea.
IV 
Provided also, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall in any way affect or abridge the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Courts of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, as established by an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and for the more effectual Government thereof, and for other Purposes relating thereto.
V 
And be it enacted, That for the Purposes of this Act the Word " Colony" shall mean any Island, Plantation, Colony, Dominion, Fort, or Factory of Her Majesty, except any Island within the United Kingdom, and the Islands of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, and the Islands adjacent thereto respectively, and except also all such Parts and Places as are under the Government of the East India Company ; and the Word " Governor " shall mean the Officer for the Time being administering the Government of any Colony.
VI 
And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed during this present Session of Parliament.