The Colonial Prisoners Removal Act 1884 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom whereby prisoners in British colonies may be transferred to the United Kingdom to serve their sentence.
The legislation was used as recently as May 2020 when a man convicted of robbery in the Cayman Islands and in prison there, was transported to prison in the UK.
Subsequent developments In section 16(2) of the act, the words from " nor any provisions " onwards were repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1963, which came into force on 31 July 1963.
Section 14A and in section 18, the words "and subject, as respects India, to the provisions of section fourteen A of this Act", and in the definition of "British possession", the words "which are not part of India", were repealed by section 1(1) of, and part VII of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976, which came into force on 27 May 1976. Section 31 of the act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and part XIV of schedule 1 to, the 1976 act.
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