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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-prize-act-1864/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-prize-act-1864/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/27-28/25",
  "legislation_title": "Naval Prize Act 1864",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-prize-act-1864",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for regulating Naval Prize of War.\n[23d June 1864]\nWhereas it is expedient to enact permanently, with amendments, such provisions concerning naval prize, and matters connected therewith, as have heretofore been usually passed at the beginning of a war:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "References in this Act, as one of the Prize Courts Acts 1864–1944, to High Court of Admiralty to be construed as references to High Court: Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), ss. 27, 151(5), Sch. 4 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended by S.I. 1972/971, art. 4, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/27-28/25/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:05:39.504415+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."
}