{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-discipline-act-1860/section-LXXXV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-discipline-act-1860/section-LXXXV.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/23-24/123",
  "legislation_title": "Naval Discipline Act 1860",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-discipline-act-1860",
  "path": "section/LXXXV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "LXXXV",
  "heading": "When Ship of senior Officer is lost he may dispose of Officers and Crew of lost Ship.",
  "text": "If the Ship of any Officer ordered to command any Two or more of Her Majesty's Ships shall be wrecked, lost, or otherwise destroyed, such Officer shall continue in the Command of any Ship or Ships which at the Time of his Ship being wrecked, lost, or destroyed was or were under his Command, and it shall be lawful for such Officer to order the surviving Officers and Crew of the wrecked, lost, or destroyed Ship to join any other Ship under his Command, or to distribute them among the other Ships under his Command, if more than One, and such Officer shall, until he meets with some other Officer senior to himself, have the same Power and Authority in all respects as if his Ship had not been wrecked, lost, or destroyed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/23-24/123/section/LXXXV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:11:08.179985+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."
}