{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-courts-of-admiralty-act-1890/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/53-54/27",
  "legislation_title": "Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-courts-of-admiralty-act-1890",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Power of Colonial legislature as to Admiralty jurisdiction.",
  "text": "The legislature of a British possession may by any Colonial law\n(a) declare any court of unlimited civil jurisdiction, whether original or appellate, in that possession to be a Colonial Court of Admiralty, and provide for the exercise by such court of its jurisdiction under this Act, and limit territorially, or otherwise, the extent of such jurisdiction; and\n(b) confer upon any inferior or subordinate court in that possession such partial or limited Admiralty jurisdiction under such regulations and with such appeal (if any) as may seem fit:\nProvided that any such Colonial law shall not confer any jurisdiction which is not by this Act conferred upon a Colonial Court of Admiralty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/53-54/27/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:34:10.821338+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."
}