{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/piracy-act-1698-repealed-5111993/section-VII",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/11/7",
  "legislation_title": "Piracy Act 1698 (repealed 5.11.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/piracy-act-1698-repealed-5111993",
  "path": "section/VII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VII",
  "heading": "Natural-born Subjects committing Acts as herein mentioned, deemed, and upon Conviction, to suffer according to Stat. 28 Hen. VIII. c. 15.",
  "text": "If any of His Majesties . . . Subjects . . . shall committ any Piracy or Robbery or any Act of Hostility against other His Majesties Subjects upon the Sea under Colour of any Commission from any Forreigne Prince or State or Pretence of Authority from any Person whatsoever such Offender and Offenders and every of them shall be deemed adjudged and taken to be Pirates Felons and Robbers . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by British Nationality Act 1948 (c. 56), Sch. 4 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/11/7/section/VII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:32.850907+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."
}