THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 13, 1939.
(c) any other country or territory in which for the time being His Majesty has jurisdiction in nutters of prize; and accordingly sub-section (1) of the said section shall have effect as if the reference therein to a British possession included a reference to any of the countries and territories mentioned in paragraphs (a) 10 (c) of this sub-section; and sub-secton (2) of the said section shall, in relation to any of the said countries and territories, have effect as if for the reference in that sub-section to the Vice-Admiral of the possession, there were substituted a reference to such authority as may be prescribed, in relation to that country or territory, by Order of His Majesty in Council.
(2) The Admiralty may appoint a judge, registrar and marshal, and other officers, of any Vice-Admiralty court established by any commission or warrant the issue of which is authorized by section two of the Prize Courts Act, 1894, as amended by this section, in any of the countries and territories mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c) of the preceding sub-section.
(3) Any commission or warrant for the purpose of com- missioning or regulating the procedure of a prize court which has been issued before the commencement of this Act and is in force at the commencement of this Act, shall have effect as if any reference therein to ships included a reference to aircraft.
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3. For the removal of doubts it is hereby declared that Certain Colonial Courts of Admiralty within the meaning of the declared to Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890, courts to which he prize paragraph (6) of the proviso to sub-section (3) of section two of that Act applies by virtue of an Order in Council under 53 & 54 Vict. section twelve of that Act, and Vice-Admiralty courts estab- lished by any commission or warrant the issue of which is authorized by section two of the Prize Courts Act, 1894, as amended by this Act, are prize courts within the meaning of the Naval Prize Act, 1864.
4.--(1) This Act extends to the following countries and Extent of territories, that is to say,-
(a) the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man,
(b) the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion
of New Zealand,
(c) British India and British Burma,
(d) Newfoundland and every colony,
(e) every British protectorate, and
(every territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Majesty, and is being exercised by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, in the Commonwealth of Australia or in the Dominion of New Zealand,
and (to the extem of His Majesty's jurisdiction therein in matters of prize) to every other country or territory in which for the time being His Majesty has such jurisdiction.
(2) The enactments relating to prize, as amended by this Act, shall extend to the countries and territories mentioned in paragraphs (e) and () of the preceding sub-section, and (to
this Act and existing Prize Acts.
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