{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debts-deceased-servicemen-etc-act-1893/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debts-deceased-servicemen-etc-act-1893/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/56-57/5",
  "legislation_title": "Debts (Deceased Servicemen etc) Act 1893",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/debts-deceased-servicemen-etc-act-1893",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Application of Act to deserters, felons, &c.",
  "text": "Where a person subject to service law deserts, or is absent without leave for twenty-one days, or, in consequence of a conviction by or before a court of ordinary criminal jurisdiction, ... is imprisoned or detained to serve a sentence of three months or more, ... , the provisions of this Act shall apply as if the person were dead, subject to the following modifications:\n(1) The powers of the committee of adjustment shall arise and continue notwithstanding that the preferential charges are paid or secured:\n(2) The committee of adjustment shall dispose of the surplus in the prescribed manner, and the same when so disposed of shall be free from all claim on the part of the said person or any one claiming through him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (28.3.2009 for specified purposes, 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 16 para. 6; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), s. 11(2)(b), Sch. 2 para. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 23 repealed (28.3.2009 for specified purposes, 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 16 para. 7, Sch. 17; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Revision of the Army and Air Force Acts (Transitional Provisions) Act 1955 (c. 20), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 23 modified (24.4.2009 for specified purposes, 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Transitional Provisions etc) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1059), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/56-57/5/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:44.398916+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."
}