{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/revenue-act-1889/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/revenue-act-1889/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/52-53/42",
  "legislation_title": "Revenue Act 1889",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/revenue-act-1889",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Undisposed of residue of sailors effects.",
  "text": "(1) If in any case the residue or any part thereof of the estate or effects of a deceased officer, seaman, or marine, having been received by the Admiralty, remains undisposed of or unappropriated for a period of six years and-a-half from the date of the receipt by the Admiralty of notice of the death, the Admiralty shall, as soon as may be after the expiration of that period, pay or credit the said residue or part to the Greenwich Hospital capital account. Provided that this section shall not apply to any sums received by the Admiralty before the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three and that the application under this section of any residue, or part of a residue, shall not bar any subsequent claim of any person to the same.\n(2) This section shall be construed as part of the Navy and Marines (Property of Deceased) Act, 1865.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 30 amended (women's services) by Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55, SIF 7:1), s. 20, Sch. 3 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Functions of Admiralty under s. 30 now exercisable by a Secretary of State: Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15), s. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/52-53/42/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:34:59.357079+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."
}