# The Falkland Islands Courts (Overseas Jurisdiction) Order 1989, Article 4: Powers of Supreme Court and Magistrate’s Court.


(1) In exercising the jurisdiction conferred on them by section 3 of this Order in any proceedings, the Supreme Court and the Magistrate’s Court shall have the like powers as they would have had if the proceedings had concerned matters arising under the law of the Falkland Islands.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of this section, the Supreme Court and the Magistrate’s Court shall have power—
(a) to order the arrest, and detention pending the outcome of the proceedings, of a person accused of an offence under the law of the relevant Territory, or to impose conditions to secure the attendance of such a person at his trial or for any other purpose;
(b) to order the seizure and detention of any article which may be evidence of such an offence;
(c) to order persons to give evidence or produce documents in proceedings relating to such an offence or in civil proceedings in respect of matters arising under the law of the relevant Territory;
(d) to order the conveyance in custody of any person charged with such an offence from the relevant Territory to any place in the Falkland Islands where he can be tried for that offence; and
(e) to order the conveyance of any article which may be evidence of such an offence from the relevant Territory to any place in the Falkland Islands where a person charged with that offence can be tried.
(3) The powers conferred on the Supreme Court and the Magistrate’s Court by the foregoing provisions of this section shall extend as well to persons in the relevant Territory and as respects things done or to be done in the relevant Territory as to persons in the Falkland Islands and as respects things done or to be done in the Falkland Islands.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2399/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/falkland-islands-courts-overseas-jurisdiction-order-1989/article-4
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