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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 13, 1939.

the extent 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.

5. This Act may be cited as the Prize Act, 1939; and Short title the Naval Prize Acts, 1864 to 1916, and this Act may be and citation. cited together as the Prize Acts, 1864 to 1939.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Amendments of Prize Acts in relation to Aircraft.

ACT AMENDED.

The Naval Prize Act. 1864 (27 and 28 Vict. c. 25).

AMENDMENT.

In section two, for the words "and others on board any of Her Majesty's ships of war" there shall be substituted the words "airmen and others on board any of His Majesty's ships of war or any of is Majesty's military aircraft; for the words "(other than ships)' there shall be substituted the words "but does not include ships, and does not include aircraft which are not part of the cargo of a ship' and at the end of that section there shall be inserted the following paragraphs :-

"The term, aircraft papers' includes all books, pusses, charter parties, bills of lading, manifests, certificates, licences, lists, tickets, notes, letters and other documents and writings delivered up or found on board a captured aircraft.

"The tern any of His Majesty's military aircraft' includes any aircraft belonging to His Majesty's naval, military or air forces, and any hired anned aircraft in His Majesty's service".

In section sixteen, after the second paragraph there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:

"Every aircraft taken as prize and brought to a place within the jurisdiction of a prize court, shall forthwith, and without bulk broken, be delivered up to the marshal of the court.

"If there is no such marshal, then the aircraft shall be in like manner delivered up to such person as the court may appoint";

and in the third paragraph thereof after the words "The ship" there shall be inserted the words "or aircraft", and after the word "officer there shall be inserted the words "or person".

In section seventeen, for the first paragraph thereof there shall be substituted the following paragraph:-

"The captors shall with all practicable speed after the ship is brought into port, or the aircraft is brought to a place within the jurisdiction of a prize court. bring the ship papers or the aircraft papers, as the case may be, into the registry of the court";

Section 1.