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 58 STAT.] INDIA-CRIMINAL OFFENSES, JURISDICTION- ept. 29, 1942 1201 Oct. 10, 1942 with respect to any particular case, a Secretary of State may by order direct that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply in that case. (2) The foregoing subsection shall not affect any powers of arrest, search, entry, or custody, exercisable under British law with respect to offences committed or believed to have been committed against that law, but where a person against whom proceedings cannot, by virtue of that subsection, be prosecuted before a court of the United Kingdom is in the custody of any authority of the United Kingdom, he shall, in accordance with such general or special directions as may be given by or under the authority of a Secretary of State, the Admiralty, or the Minister for Home Affairs in Northern Ireland, for the purpose of giving effect to any arrangements made by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom with the Government of the United States of America, be delivered into the custody of such authority of the United States of America as may be provided by the directions, being an authority appearing to the Secretary of State, the Admiralty, or the Minister, as the case may be, to be appropriate having regard to the provisions of any Order in Council for the time being in force under the Act hereinbefore recited and of any orders made thereunder. (3) Nothing in this Act shall render any person subject to any liability whether civil or criminal in respect of anything done by him to any member of the said forces in good faith and without knowledge that he was a member of those forces. 2.- (1) For the purposes of this Act and of the Allied Membership of forces of the Forces Act, 1940, in its application to the military and Unitd Stats naval forces of the United States of America, all persons of America. who are by the law of the United States of America for the time being subject to the military or naval law of that country shall be deemed to be members of the said forces: Provided that no person employed in connection with the said forces, not being a citizen or national of the United States of America, shall be deemed to be a member of those forces unless he entered into that employment outside the United Kingdom. (2) For the purposes of any proceedings in any court of the United Kingdom, a certificate issued by or on behalf of such authority as may be appointed for the purpose by the Government of the United States of America stating that a person of the name and descrip- tion specified in the certificate is, or was at a time so specified, subject to the military or naval law of the United States of America, shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.

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