Naval Enlistment Act 1884
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1884 c. 46 |
Naval Enlistment Act, 1884
(47 & 48 Vict.) CHAPTER 46.
An Act to amend the Naval Enlistment Act, 1853, and for other purposes connected therewith.
[7th August 1884]
B E it enacted by the Queen'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:
1 Short title and construction.
1. The Act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter twenty-four, intituled ‘An Act for the encouragement of the voluntary enlistment of Seamen, and to make regulations for more effectually manning His Majesty's Navy,’ is in this Act referred to and may be cited as the Naval Enlistment Act, 1835.
The Act of the session of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter sixty-nine, intituled ‘An Act to make better provision concerning the entry and service of Seamen, and otherwise to amend the laws concerning Her Majesty's Navy,’ is in this Act referred to and may be cited as the Naval Enlistment Act, 1853.
This Act and the Naval Enlistment Act, 1835, and the Naval Enlistment Act, 1853, shall be construed together as one Act, and may be cited together as the Naval Enlistment Acts, 1835 to 1884, and this Act may be cited separately as theNaval Enlistment Act, 1884.
2 Amendment of 16 & 17 Vict. c. 69. as to period of service of boys and evidence.
2. Whereas by the Naval Enlistment Act, 1835, it is provided that a person shall not be detained in the naval service of His Majesty for more than five years unless he voluntarily entered the same for a longer term, and that, at the expiration of such term, he shall be discharged as therein provided:
And whereas by the Naval Enlistment Act, 1853, it was enacted (by section one) that where, under the regulations or directions of the Admiralty, men were willing to enter or re-enter into the naval service of Her Majesty for ten years continuous and general service or for such other term of continuous and general service as under the said regulations or directions may be authorised, such men should be liable to serve accordingly, and (by section two) that every boy under the age of eighteen years entering the naval service of Her Majesty should be entered and liable to serve until he attains the age of twenty-eight years, and that a person who, when of the age of eighteen or upwards, entered into such naval service as a boy, should be entered for ten years continuous and general service from the time of his entering, and should be liable to serve accordingly:
And whereas it is...
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