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NAVAL PRIZE ACT 1864 - SECT 17

Bringing in of ship papers.

17. [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].

The officer in command, or one of the chief officers of the capturing ship,
[or capturing aircraft], or some other person who was present at the capture,
and saw the ship papers [or aircraft papers] delivered up or found on board,
shall make oath that they are brought in as they were taken, without fraud,
addition, subduction, or alteration, or else shall account on oath to the
satisfaction of the court for the absence or altered condition of the
ship papers [or aircraft papers] or any of them.

Where no ship papers [or aircraft papers] are delivered up or found on board
the captured ship [or aircraft], the officer in command, or one of the chief
officers of the capturing ship [or capturing aircraft], or some other person
who was present at the capture, shall make oath to that effect.

Ss.1829 rep. by 1914 c.13 (4 & 5 Geo.5) s.1(1) sch.

Several small ships may be included in one adjudication.

© 1864 Crown Copyright

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