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EIGHTH AND NINTH YEARS OF THE REIGN
OF HIS MAJESTY

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PRINTED BY JOSEPH de LABROQUERIE TACHÉ

LAW PRINTER (FOR CANADA) TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

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8-9 GEORGE V.

CHAP. 30.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Naval Prize of War. A.D. 1918.

[8th August, 1918.]

BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and

with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

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1. (1) If His Majesty is pleased by Proclamation or Order Application in Council to signify his intention to make a grant of prize of prizes money out of the proceeds of prize captured in the present war, being the the sums which have been or may be received in respect of Crown. ships and goods captured during the present war specified in Part I. of the schedule to this Act shall (subject as respects money in any prize court to the assent of that court) be paid as and when the Treasury and Admiralty jointly direct into a separate fund to be called the Naval Prize Fund, and there shall be charged on and payable out of the Naval Prize Fund all such costs, charges, expenses, and claims as are mentioned in Part II. of the said schedule, and any question whether any sum is payable into or out of that fund shall be determined by the Tribunal hereinafter constituted.

(2) Subject to the payment of such costs, charges, expenses, and claims as aforesaid, such sum as may be required for the payment of prize money under this Act shall be a first charge on the Naval Prize Fund, and such prize money shall be of such amounts and payable to such members of His Majesty's Naval and Marine forces as hereinafter defined, or in the case of their death their representatives, and in such manner, as His Majesty may by Proclamation or Order in Council determine.

(3) The residue of the said Fund may be applied towards any of the purposes for which provision may be made by Greenwich Hospital, and also, subject to regulations made by the Admiralty, may be applied for the benefit of members and dependants of members of forces raised and provided by the Governments of parts of His Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom.

(4) Section seventeen of the Naval Agency and Distribution 27 & 28 Vict. Act, 1864 (which requires forfeited and unclaimed shares and c. 24. balances of prize money, and a percentage of the proceeds of prize and prize money to be carried to the naval prize cash balance) shall not apply to sums payable into the Naval Prize Fund or to any prize money payable out of that Fund, but any forfeited and unclaimed shares and balances of such prize money may be applied for the purposes for which the residue of the said Fund is applicable, without prejudice, however, to VOL. I-A

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