THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 13, 1939.
ACT AMENDED.
The Naval Prize Act, 1864 (27 and 28 Viet. c. 25)-cont.
AMENDMENT,
in the second paragraph thereof, after the words "capturing ship" there shall be inserted the words "or capturing aircraft", and after the words "ship papers" in each place where those words occur, there shall be inserted the words or aircraft papers; and in the third paragraph thereof, after the words "ship papers" there shall be inserted the words "or aircraft papers", after the words "captured ship" there shall be inserted the words captured aircraft" and after the words "cap- turing ship there shall be inserted the words "or capturing aircraft".
or
In section thirty-one, after the word "ships" there shall be inserted the words "and aircraft'; and after the word "ship" there shail be inserted the words "or aircraft".
In section forty, in the first paragraph thereof, after the word "ship" there shall be inserted the word "aircraft", and after the words ‘any of Her Majesty's ships of war" there shall be inserted the words "or any of His Majesty's military aircraft" and in the second paragraph thereof after the word "ship" in each place where that word occurs, there shall be inserted the words "or aircraft", and after the words "as a ship of war" there shall be inserted the words or as a military aircraft".
In section forty-one, in the first paragraph thereof after the word ship" there shall be inserted the words 'or aircraft", and after the words "any of Her Majesty's ships of war" there shall be inserted the words "or any of His Majesty's military aircraft"; for the second paragraph thereof there shall be substituted the following paragraph:-
"The master or owner of the ship or his agent, or the pilot or owner of the aircraft or his agent, may, with the consent of the re-captors, unload and dispose of the goods on board the ship or aircraft, as the case may be, before adjudication";
and in the third paragraph thereof after the words "United Kingdom" there shall be inserted the words "or the aircraft does not, within six months, return to a place within, the United Kingdom", and after the word "ship" in the second place where that word occurs there shall be inserted the word "aircraft".
In section forty-seven, after the word "ships" in each place where that word occurs there shall be inserted the word "aircraft" and after the words "United Kingdom" there shall be inserted the words "or brought to a place within the United Kingdom, as the case may be,".
After section forty-eight, there shall be inserted the following section :-
"48A. Where any aircraft or goods taken as prize is or are brought to any place within the jurisdiction of a prize court, the pilot or other person in charge or command of the aircraft which has been taken or in which the goods are brought shall, when required by any officer of Customs, deliver an account in writing under his hand concerning such aircraft and goods, giving such particulars relating thereto
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