1354 THE JUDICIARY [PART VI 
with having committed any offence on board any British 
ship on the high seas, and that person is found within the 
jurisdiction of any court in Her Majesty’s dominions, which 
would have had cognizance of the offence if it had been 
committed on board a British ship within the limits of its 
ordinary jurisdiction, that Court shall have jurisdiction to 
try the offence as if it had been so committed. 
(2) Nothing in this section shall affect the Admiralty 
Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849.1 
687. All offences against property or person committed in 
or at any place either ashore or afloat out of Her Majesty's 
dominions by any master, seaman, or apprentice who at the 
time when the offence is committed is, or within three months 
previously has been, employed in any British ship, shall 
be deemed to be offences of the same nature respectively, 
and be liable to the same punishments respectively, and be 
inquired of, heard, tried, determined, and adjudged in the 
same manner and by the same Courts and in the same places 
as if those offences had been committed within the jurisdic- 
tion of the Admiralty of England : and the costs and expenses 
of the prosecution of any such offence may be directed to be 
laid as in the case of costs and expenses of prosecutions for 
offences committed within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty 
of England. 
Moreover, it is provided in s. 478 2 of that Act that 
The legislature of any British possession may authorize 
any Court to make inquiries as to shipwrecks or other 
casualties affecting ships or as to charges of incompetency 
or misconduct on the part of a master, mate. or engineer of 
ships in the following cases, viz. : 
(a) Where a shipwreck or casualty occurs to a British ship 
on or near the coasts of the British possession or to a British 
ship in the course of a vovage to a port within the British 
possession : 
(b) Where a shipwreck or casualty occurs in any part 
of the world to a British ship registered in the British 
possession : 
(¢) Where some of the crew of a British ship which has 
' See 30 & 31 Viet. c. 124, 8. 11; 18 & 19 Viet. c. 91, s. 21. 
* Formerly 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104, s. 242, and 25 & 26 Vict. ¢. 63, s. 23, 
made provision, but inadequately, according to the decision in in re Victoria 
Steam Navigation Board, cx parte Allan, 7 V. L. R. 248 ; the defect was 
remedied in 45 & 46 Vict. c. 76.