{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prize-salvage-act-1944/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prize-salvage-act-1944/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/7-8/7",
  "legislation_title": "Prize Salvage Act 1944",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prize-salvage-act-1944",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Restriction on claims for prize salvage.",
  "text": "(1) No proceedings to enforce a claim for services rendered in retaking a ship, aircraft or goods taken by an enemy shall be instituted after the commencement of this Act without the consent of the Admiralty or the Secretary of State.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In any proceedings instituted after the commencement of this Act otherwise than to enforce such a claim as aforesaid, no such claim shall be made, or shall be relied upon by way of defence or otherwise, without the consent of the Admiralty or the Secretary of State.\n(4) Evidence of the consent required by this section may be given by means of a document purporting to give the consent and to be signed on behalf of the Admiralty or the Secretary of State.\n(5) In this section the expressions “ship” and “goods” have the same meaning as in the Naval Prize Act 1864 as amended by the Prize Act 1939.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(2) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1864 c. 25."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1939 c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "References to the Admiralty to be construed as references to the Secretary of State: Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15), s. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/7-8/7/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:58.904560+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."
}