{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/admiralty-offences-colonial-act-1849/section-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/12-13/96",
  "legislation_title": "Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act 1849",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/admiralty-offences-colonial-act-1849",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interpretation of terms.",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Act the word “colony” shall mean any island, plantation, colony, dominion, fort, or factory of her Majesty, except any island within the United Kingdom and the islands of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, and the islands adjacent thereto respectively . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Admiralty Jurisdiction (India) Act 1860 (c. 88), s. 1 and Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1881 (c. 59), s. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/12-13/96/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:27:09.717558+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}