NAVAL PRIZE ACT 1864 - SECT 41 Permission to re- captured ship to proceed on voyage, and post ponement of adjudication.

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NAVAL PRIZE ACT 1864 - SECT 41

Permission to re- captured ship to proceed on voyage, and post ponement of adjudication.

41. Where a ship [or aircraft] belonging to any of Her Majesty's subjects,
after being taken as prize by the enemy, is retaken from the enemy by any of
Her Majesty's ships of war [or any of His Majesty's military aircraft], she
may, with the consent of the re-captors, prosecute her voyage, and it shall
not be necessary for the re-captors to proceed to adjudication till her return
to a port of the United Kingdom.

[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].In case the ship does not, within six months, return to a port
of the United Kingdom, [or the aircraft does not, within six months, return to
a place within the United Kingdom], the re-captors may nevertheless institute
proceedings against the ship [aircraft] or goods in
the High Court of Admiralty, and the Court may thereupon award prize salvage
as aforesaid to the re-captors, and may enforce payment thereof ....

Part V (ss.4244) rep. by 1948 c.9 s.9(2)

Regulations as to ransom.

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NAVAL PRIZE ACT 1864 - SECT 41