Straits Settlements Act 1866
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1866 c. 115 |
| Year | 1866 |
Straits Settlements Act, 1866
(29 & 30 Vict.) C A P. CXV.
An Act to provide for the Government of the ‘Straits Settlements.’
[10th August 1866]
W HEREAS the Islands and Territories known as the ‘Straits Settlements,’ namely,Prince of Wales' Island , the Island of Singapore , and the Town and Fort of Malacca , and their Dependencies, were heretofore Part of the Territories in the Possession and under the Government of the East India Company, and became vested in Her Majesty as a Part of India by virtue and subject to the Provisions of the Act of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Year of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and six, intituled An Act for the better Government of India: And whereas it is expedient that the said Settlements and their Dependencies should cease to form Part of India , and should be placed under the Government of Her Majesty as Part of the Colonial Possessions of the Crown: And whereas it may be hereafter expedient to include the Colony of Labuan within the Government of the said Settlements: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
1 Straits Settlements shall cease to be Part of India.
1. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order to be by Her made with the Advice of Her Privy Council, to declare that this Act shall come into operation at a Time to be specified in such Order in Council, and at such Time the said Settlements shall cease to be Part ofIndia for the Purposes and within the Meaning of the aforesaid Act, and it shall be further lawful for Her Majesty by any such Order to make Provision respecting the Enforcement by or against the Government of the said Settlements of all or any of such Debts, Claims, and Obligations as might, if this Act had not passed, have been enforced by or against the Government of India in connexion with the Administration of the said Settlements.
2 Power to Her Majesty in Council to make Laws, constitute Courts, &c.
2. From and after the coming into operation of this Act, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order or Orders to be by Her from Time to Time made, with the Advice of Her said Privy Council, to establish all such Laws, Institutions, and Ordinances, and to constitute...
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