{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-agency-and-distribution-act-1864/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-agency-and-distribution-act-1864/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/27-28/24",
  "legislation_title": "Naval Agency and Distribution Act 1864",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-agency-and-distribution-act-1864",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Forfeited shares and deduction of 5 per cent. to be carried to Naval prize cash balance.",
  "text": "All forfeited and unclaimed shares and balances of prize money, . . . , shall, under the direction of the Admiralty continue to be carried to and to form part of the naval prize cash balance.\nSo much of the naval prize cash balance as the Admiralty think expedient shall from time to time by Her Majesty’s Paymaster General, under the authority and direction of the Admiralty, be paid and transferred to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.\nIn case at any time a claim in respect of prize or bounty money is made which the naval prize cash balance is not sufficient to meet, there shall be paid out of the said Consolidated Fund a sufficient sum to meet such claim.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55, SIF 7:1), s. 28, Sch. 5 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 17 amended by Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55, SIF 7:1), s. 25"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/27-28/24/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:05:40.273918+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."
}