{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-prize-act-1864/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-prize-act-1864/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/27-28/25",
  "legislation_title": "Naval Prize Act 1864",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-prize-act-1864",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Bringing in of ship papers.",
  "text": "The captors shall with all practicable speed after the ship is brought into port, or the aircraft is brought to a place within the jurisdiction of a prize court, bring the ship papers, or the aircraft papers, as the case may be, into the registry of the court.\nThe officer in command, or one of the chief officers of the capturing ship, or capturing aircraft, or some other person who was present at the capture, and saw the ship papers or aircraft papers delivered up or found on board, shall make oath that they are brought in as they were taken, without fraud, addition, subduction, or alteration, or else shall account on oath to the satisfaction of the court for the absence or altered condition of the ship papers or aircraft papers or any of them.\nWhere no ship papers or aircraft papers are delivered up or found on board the captured ship or captured aircraft the officer in command, or one of the chief officers of the capturing ship, or capturing aircraft or some other person who was present at the capture, shall make oath to that effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Prize Act 1939 (c. 65), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Prize Act 1939 (c. 65), Sch. Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/27-28/25/section/17",
    "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."
}