of Fees appended to the Rules may be revoked, varied or added to without the approval of Your Majesty in Council." Her Majesty, having taken the said Memorial into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve of what is therein proposed, and to direct that the Rules of Court hereto annexed shall be the Rules of Court for the said Exchequer Court of Canada in its Admiralty jurisdiction and shall be established and be in force in the said court, and to declare that Rules 158 to 176 (both inclusive), Rule 224, and the Tables of fees appended to the Rules may be revoked, varied, or added to, without the approval of Her Majesty in Council. And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary direction herein accordingly. C. L. PEEL. or otherwise in relation to appeals under this Act shall have full effect throughout Her Majesty's dominions, and in all places where Her Majesty has jurisdiction. (5) This section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the authority of Her Majesty in Council or the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council arising otherwise than under this Act, and all enactments relating to appeals to Her Majesty in Council or to the powers of Her Majesty in Council or the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in relation to those appeals, whether for making rules and orders or otherwise shall extend, save as otherwise directed by Her Majesty in Council, to appeals to Her Majesty in Council under this Act. Sec. 7. 7. (1) Rules of court for regulating the procedure and Rules of court. practice (including fees and costs) in a court in a British possession in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by this Act, whether original or appellate, may be made by the same authority and in the same manner as rules touching the practice, procedure, fees and costs in the said court in the exercise of its ordinary civil jurisdiction respectively are made: Provided that the rules under this section shall not, save as provided by this Act, extend to matters relating to the slave trade, and shall not (save as provided by this section) come into operation until they have been approved by Her Majesty in Council, but on coming into operation shall have full effect as if enacted in this Act; and any enactment inconsistent therewith shall, so far as it is so inconsistent, be repealed. (2) It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council, in approving rules made under this section, to declare that the rules so made with respect to any matters which appear to Her Majesty to be matters of detail or of local concern may be revoked, varied or added to, without the approval required by this section. (3) Such rules may provide for the exercise of any jurisdiction conferred by this Act by the full court, or by Secs. 8, 9. any judge or judges thereof, and subject to any rules, where the ordinary civil jurisdiction of the court can, in any case, be exercised by a single judge, any jurisdiction conferred by this Act may, in the like case, be exercised by a single judge. Droits of and of the Power to establish ViceAdmiralty Courts. 8. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section nothing in this Act shall alter the application of any droits of Admiralty or droits of or forfeitures to the Crown in a British possession; and such droits and forfeitures, when condemned by a court of a British possession in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by this Act, shall, save as is otherwise provided by any other Act, be notified, accounted for and dealt with in such manner as the Treasury from time to time direct, and the officers of every Colonial Court of Admiralty and of every other court in a British possession exercising Admiralty jurisdiction shall obey such directions in respect of the said droits and forfeitures as may be, from time to time, given by the Treasury. (2) It shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen in Council by Order to direct that, subject to any conditions, exceptions, reservations and regulations contained in the Order, the said droits and forfeitures condemned by a court in a British possession shall form part of the revenues of that possession either for ever or for such limited term or subject to such revocation as may be specified in the Order. (3) If and so long as any of such droits or forfeitures by virtue of this or any other Act form part of the revenues of the said possession the same shall, subject to the provisions of any law for the time being applicable thereto, be notified, accounted for and dealt with in manner directed by the Government of the possession, and the Treasury shall not have any power in relation thereto. 9. (1) It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by commission, under the Great Seal, to empower the Admiralty to establish in a British possession any Vice-Admiralty Court or Courts. (2) Upon the establishment of a Vice-Admiralty Court in a British possession, the Admiralty, by writing under their hands and the seal of the office of Admiralty, in such form as the Admiralty may direct, may appoint a judge, registrar, marshal and other officers of the court, and may cancel any such appointment; and in addition to any other jurisdiction of such court, may (subject to the limits imposed by this Act or the said commission from Her Majesty) vest in such court the whole or any part of the jurisdiction by or by virtue of this Act conferred upon any courts of that British possession; and may vary or revoke such vesting, and while such vesting is in force the power of such lastmentioned courts to exercise the jurisdiction so vested shall be suspended. Provided that (a) nothing in this section shall authorize a Vice- (b) in the event of a vacancy in the office of judge, (3) The provisions of this Act with respect to appeals to Her Majesty in Council from courts in British possessions in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by this Act, shall apply to appeals from Vice-Admiralty Courts, but the rules and orders made in relation to appeals from ViceAdmiralty Courts may differ from the rules made in relation to appeals from the said courts in British possessions. Sec. 9. 33 & 34 Vict. 35 & 36 Vict. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 51. Sec. 6. Admiralty exercise of the jurisdiction conferred on it by this Act, shall be subject to the like local appeal, if any, as judgments of the court in the exercise of its ordinary civil jurisdiction, and the court having cognizance of such appeal shall for the purpose thereof, possess all the jurisdiction by this Act conferred upon a Colonial Court of Admiralty. 6. (1) The appeal from a judgment of any court in a British possession in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by this Act, either where there is as of right no local appeal or after a decision on local appeal, lies to Her Majesty the Queen in Council. (2) Save as may be otherwise specially allowed in a particular case by Her Majesty the Queen in Council, an appeal under this section shall not be allowed (a) from any judgment not having the effect of a definitive judgment unless the court appealed from has given leave for such appeal, nor (b) from any judgment unless the petition of appeal has been lodged within the time prescribed by rules, or if no time is prescribed within six months from the date of the judgment appealed against, or if leave to appeal has been given, then from the date of such leave. (3) For the purpose of appeals under this Act, Her Majesty the Queen in Council and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council shall, subject to rules under this section, have all such powers for making and enforcing judgments, whether interlocutory or final, for punishing contempts, for requiring the payment of money into court, or for any other purpose, as may be necessary, or as were possessed by the High Court of Delegates before the passing of the Act transferring the powers of such court to Her Majesty in Council, or as are, for the time being, possessed by the High Court in England or by the court appealed from in relation to the like matters as those forming the subject of appeals under this Act. (4) All Orders of the Queen in Council or the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for the purposes aforesaid |