Minister may order payment of expenses of the removal, etc., of criminals or criminal lunatics from certain places

(1) When any person who is a native of, or ordinarily resident in Belize, commits any offence in any place out of Her Majesty’s dominions in which Her Majesty exercises jurisdiction over British subjects, and is either convicted of the said offence or acquitted therefrom on the ground of insanity and is sent to any British colony or other place to undergo his sentence or to be confined as a criminal lunatic under the powers contained in section 7 of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890 c. 37, or in the Colonial Prisoners’ Removal Act 1884, c. 31 or in any Act amending either of the aforesaid Acts, it shall be lawful for the Minister to order the payment by the Financial Secretary out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the expenses, so far as they cannot be met out of the effects of such person under order of the court so convicting or acquitting, of the removal of such person to Belize or place in which he is to undergo his sentence or be confined as a criminal lunatic, and of his maintenance during his imprisonment or confinement and of any other expenses incident to his conviction or his acquittal on the ground of insanity. (2) The Minister may from time to time make rules and Regulations for the more effectual working of this section. 30