Section 18, * The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony.

The testimony of any witness may be obtained in relationto any criminal matter pending in any Court or tribunal in a foreign State in like manner as it may be obtained in relation to any civil matter under the Act entitled" An Act to provide for taking evidence in Her Majesty's Dominions in relation to civil and commercial matters pending before foreign tribunals," which Act shall for these purposes apply to, and be in force within, the Protectorate, and all the provisions of that Act shall be construed as if the term " Colony or Possession " included a Protectorate, and as if the term "civil matter" included a criminal matter, and the term "cause" included a proceeding against a criminal: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply in the case of any criminal matter of a political character.