1322 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, confers, ratifying in this
regard older Acts, full powers of legislation on Colonial
Legislatures with regard to making regulations as to the
examination of engineers, masters, or mates, and if the Board
of Trade are satisfied with the rules thay may declare them to
have the same effect in rendering certificates available as if
they were the British rules; under this power (s. 102) Orders
in Council have been issued for Canada, Newfoundland, and
the Australian Colonies, now states, and New Zealand. It
also empowers (s. 444) the Board of Trade to accept Colonial
loadlines, and by Order in Council give them Imperial
validity. The powers conferred in ss. 735 and 736 as to
registered and coasting vessels have been dealt with above,
and those as to inquiries into casualties will be mentioned
later (Part VI, chap. ii).
Other Acts which rest in the main on the need for extra-
territorial validity include the Act of 1865, which renders
valid throughout the Empire marriages contracted in a
Colony and declared valid by an Act of the Legislature, pro-
vided that the persons married were able to marry under
English law at the time,! and the Act of 1860 2 which permits
Colonial Legislatures to enact that if a person be feloniously
smitten within a Colony and dies without he may be tried
in the Colony where the offence was committed, though the
offence did not become perfected by the death of the victim
within the Colonial limits. Moreover, the Admiralty juris-
diction of Colonial Courts and the power of the Legislatures
to confer such jurisdiction depends on Imperial legislation ?
to which reference will be made later.
The Imperial Naturalization Act of 1870 deals with the
matter imperially, partly because of the question of extra-
territorial effect, partly because of the need of uniformity,
partly because naturalization is essentially an Imperial
concern. Some of its provisions have validity throughout
' 28 & 29 Vict, c. 64 ; Blackmore, Constitution of South Australia, p. 68.
+ 23 & 24 Viet. ¢. 122. Cf. jurisdiction given by the Foreign Jurisdiction
Act, 1890, and British Settlements Act, 1887,
12 & 13 Viet. ¢. 96; cf. 46 Geo. IIL. ec. 54, and 53 & 54 Viet. c. 27.
