Prize Courts Act 1894
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1894 c. 39 |
Prize Courts Act, 1894.
(57 & 58 Vict.) CHAPTER 39.
An Act to make further provision for the establishment of Prize Courts, and for other purposes connected therewith.
[17th August 1894]
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.
1. This Act may be cited as thePrize Courts Act, 1894.
2 Constitution of prize courts in British possessions.
(1) Any commission, warrant, or instructions from Her Majesty the Queen or the Admiralty for the purpose of commissioning or regulating the procedure of a prize court at any place in a British possession may, notwithstanding the existence of peace, be issued at any time, with a direction that the court shall act only upon such proclamation as herein-after mentioned being made in the possession.
(2) (2.) Where any such commission, warrant, or instructions have been issued, then, subject to instructions from Her Majesty, the Vice-Admiral of such possession may, when satisfied by information from a Secretary of State or otherwise, that war has broken out between Her Majesty and any foreign State, proclaim that war has so broken out, and thereupon the said commission, warrant, and instructions shall take effect as if the same had been issued after the breaking out of such war and such foreign State were named therein.
(3) (3.) The said commission and warrant may authorise either a Vice-Admiralty Court or a Colonial Court of Admiralty, within the meaning of the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890 , to act as a prize court, and may establish a Vice-Admiralty Court for that purpose.
(4) (4.) Any such commission, warrant, or instructions may be revoked or altered from time to time.
(5) (5.) A court duly authorised to act as a prize court during any war shall after the conclusion of the war continue so to act in relation to, and finally dispose of, all matters and things which arose during the war, including all penalties and forfeitures incurred during the war.
3 Rules of court for and fees in prize courts.
(1) Her Majesty the Queen in Council may make rules of court for regulating, subject to the provisions of...
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