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Naval Discipline Act 1957

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126Colonies

(1)This section shall have effect for the purposes of the application of this Act to the colonies.

(2)Any reference in this Act to a constable shall be construed as or as including a reference to a person having the powers of a constable within a colony.

(3)Any reference in this Act to a court of summary jurisdiction, to a justice of the peace or to summary conviction shall be construed as a reference to a court exercising corresponding jurisdiction within a colony, to a judge or member of such a court or to conviction by such a court, as the case may be; and the reference in subsection (4) of section one hundred and nine of this Act to the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952, shall be construed as a reference to any corresponding law of a colony.

(4)Any reference in this Act to a civil prison or to the governor of such a prison shall be construed as a reference to a prison or institution in which persons sentenced by a civil court in a colony may be confined, or to the governor, superintendent or other person in charge of such a prison or institution, as the case may be.

(5)In the application to a colony of any enactment contained in Part III of this Act providing for the imposition of a fine there shall, if the law of the colony so provides, be substituted for the fine specified in that enactment such higher or lower fine as may be provided by that law; and it shall be competent for the law of any colony to declare what amount of the local currency is to be treated as equivalent to the amount of money specified in any such enactment.

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