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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1824 - SECT 40

Offenders giving information against owners of vessels, &c. to be exempted from penalties.

40. Provided always, that if any person or persons offending as a petty
officer, seaman, marine, or servant, against any of the provisions of
this Act, shall, within two years after the offence committed, give
information on oath before any competent magistrate against any owner or part
owner, or any captain, master, mate, surgeon, or supercargo of any ship or
vessel, who shall have committed any offence against this Act, and shall give
evidence on oath against such owner or part owner, captain, master, mate,
surgeon, or supercargo, before any magistrate or court before whom such
offender may be tried; or if such person or persons so offending shall give
information to any of His Majesty's ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary,
envoys, charge9s d'affaires, consuls, residents, or other agents, so that any
person or persons owning such ship or vessel, or navigating or taking charge
of the same, as captain, master, mate, surgeon, or supercargo, may be
apprehended; such person or persons so giving information and evidence shall
not be liable to any of the pains or penalties under this Act incurred in
respect of his offence, and His Majesty's ambassadors, ministers
plenipotentiary, envoys, charge9s d'affaires, consuls, residents, or other
agents, are hereby required to receive any such information as aforesaid, and
to transmit the particulars thereof, without delay, to one of His Majesty's
principal secretaries of state, and to transmit copies of the same to the
commanders of His Majesty's ships or vessels then being in the said port or
place.

Ss.4146 rep. by 1873 c.88 s.30 sch.2

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