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NAVAL PRIZE ACT 1864 - SECT 45

Proceedings in case return of ship is delayed.

45. Her Majesty in Council may from time to time, in relation to any war, make
such Orders as may seem expedient, according to circumstances, for prohibiting
or allowing, wholly or in certain cases, or subject to any conditions or
regulations or otherwise, as may from time to time seem meet, the ransoming or
the entering into any contract or agreement for the ransoming of any ship or
goods belonging to any of Her Majesty's subjects, and taken as prize by any of
Her Majesty's enemies.

Any contract or agreement entered into, and any bill, bond, or other security
given for ransom of any ship or goods, shall be under the exclusive
jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty as a prize court (subject to
appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council), and if entered into or
given in contravention of any such Order in Council shall be deemed to have
been entered into or given for an illegal consideration.

If any person ransoms or enters into any contract or agreement for ransoming
any ship or goods in contravention of any such Order in Council, he shall for
every such offence be liable to be proceeded against in
the High Court of Admiralty, at the suit of Her Majesty in her office of
Admiralty, and on conviction to be fined, in the discretion of the court, any
sum not exceeding five hundred pounds.

Punishment of masters of merchant vessels under convoy disobeying orders or
deserting convoy.

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