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FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT 1870 - SECT 5

Penalty on leaving Her Majesty's dominions with intent to serve a foreign state.

5. If any person, without the license of Her Majesty, being a British subject,
quits or goes on board any ship with a view of quitting Her Majesty's
dominions, with intent to accept any commission or engagement in the military
or naval service of any foreign state at war with a friendly state, or,
whether a British subject or not, within Her Majesty's dominions, induces any
other person to quit or to go on board any ship with a view of quitting Her
Majesty's dominions with the like intent,

He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be punishable by
fine and imprisonment, or either of such punishments, at the discretion of the
court before which the offender is convicted; ....


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