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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 13, 1939.

No. 929.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

The Prize Act, 1939, which extends to this Colony, is published for general information.

13th October, 1939.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary,

2 & 3 Geo. VI Chapter 65.

An Act to apply prize law to aircraft; to amend and explain the enactments relating to prize; and to provide for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[1st September, 1989.]

Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

to aireraft.

1.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the law Application relating to prize shall apply in relation to aireraft and goods of prize law carried therein as it applies in relation to ships and goods carried therein, and shall so apply notwithstanding that the aircraft is on or over land.

(2) The amendments specified in the second column of Part I of the Schedule to this Act (being amendments neces- sary for giving effect to the preceding sub-section) shall be made in the Acts specified in the first column of that Part of that Schedule.

(3) The provisions of the Naval Prize Act, 1864, specified 27 & 28 Vict. in Part II of the Schedule to this Act shall not apply in relation «. 25. to aircraft or goods carried therein taken as prize.

ment of

2.-(1) The power conferred by section two of the Establish- Prize Courts Act, 1894, to issue any commission, warrant or prize courts instructions for the purpose of commissioning or regulating outside His the procedure of a prize court, and to establish a Vice- Majesty's Admiralty Court under the authority of any such commission or warrant, shall be exercisable not only in relation to a place in a British possession, but also in relation to a place in any of the following countries and territories, that is to say.

(a) any British protectorate,

(6) any 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

dominions.

57 & 58 Vict

e. 39.

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