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PRIZE COURTS ACT 1915

PRIZE COURTS ACT 1915 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Enactments relating to Prize Courts.
[2nd July 1915]
Power to transfer proceedings from one prize court to another.

PRIZE COURTS ACT 1915 - SECT 1

1.(1) Where proceedings are pending in any prize court... the court
may at any stage of the proceedings, on application being made by
the proper officer of the Crown, and upon being satisfied that the
proceedings... would be more conveniently conducted in any other
prize court, make an order remitting the proceedings... to such
other prize court.

(2) Where any proceedings have been remitted to another prize court
that other court shall have the same jurisdiction to deal with the
matter as if the subject-matter of those proceedings had originally
been seized within its jurisdiction or been brought within its
jurisdiction after capture, and any order or other steps made or
taken in those proceedings before the order of remission shall be
deemed to have been made or taken by or in that court.

PRIZE COURTS ACT 1915 - SECT 2
Power to make orders enforceable by other prize courts.

2. A prize court may, as respects any cause or matter within its
jurisdiction, and on the application of the proper officer of the
Crown, declare that any order or decree made by it, whether before
or after the commencement of this Act, is enforceable within the
jurisdiction of another prize court, and shall, on the like
application, have power to enforce any decree or order which another
prize court has declared to be enforceable within the jurisdiction
of such first-mentioned court.

PRIZE COURTS ACT 1915 - SECT 3
Supplemental powers of prize courts.

3.(1) Where a prize court under this Act orders the remission of
any proceedings, or declares that any order or decree is enforceable
by another prize court, the first-mentioned court may order the
subject-matter of the proceedings, or of the order or decree, to be
removed, in such manner and subject to such conditions as the court
thinks fit, into the jurisdiction of the other court, and, where
any such order of removal is made, either court may direct that
any expenses incurred in the removal shall be borne by the cargo
or any part of the cargo or the ship [or the aircraft] in such
manner as the court thinks proper.

(2) For the purpose of the voyage of a ship [or aircraft] from
the jurisdiction of one court to that of another under such an
order of removal, the ship [or aircraft], if not a British ship
[or aircraft] shall be treated as if it were a British ship
registered in the United Kingdom.

(3) The power of His Majesty in Council to make rules for
regulating the procedure and practice of prize courts shall extend
to making rules for carrying this Act into effect.

(4) The powers conferred by this Act are without prejudice to any
other powers which the High Court in England may possess for the
like purposes independently of this Act, and to the obligation
imposed on prize courts by section nine of the Naval Prize Act,
1864.

PRIZE COURTS ACT 1915 - SECT 4
Salaries and remuneration of judges and officers of prize courts.

4.(1) The power conferred by section ten of the Naval Prize Act,
1864, to grant salaries in lieu of fees to judges of prize courts
shall be extended so as also to confer a power of granting a
remuneration by way of a lump sum, and, as so extended, shall,
notwithstanding anything in any other enactment, apply also to
officers of prize courts or performing duties in connection with
matters of prize:

...

Subs.(2) rep. by SLR 1927

PRIZE COURTS ACT 1915 - SECT 5
Short title and construction.

5. This Act may be cited as the Prize Courts Act, 1915, and shall
be construed as one with the Naval Prize Act, 1864; and the Naval
Prize Acts, 1864 to 1914, and the Prize Courts (Egypt, Zanzibar,
and Cyprus) Act, 1914 and this Act may be cited together as the
Naval Prize Acts, 1864 to 1915.