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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Offences at Sea Act 1799 (c.37)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Offences at Sea Act 1799

1799 CHAPTER 37 39_Geo_3

An Act for remedying certain Defects in the Law respecting Offences committed upon the High Seas.

[10th May 1799]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)

C2Preamble repealed by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. I

X1[1.]All offences whatever committed on the high seas shall be liable to the same punishments as if committed on shore

All and every offence and offences which after the passing of this Act shall be committed upon the high seas, out of the body of any county of this realm, shall be and they are hereby declared to be offences . . . F1 liable to the same punishments respectively, as if they had been committed upon the shore, . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Words repealed by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. I

Editorial Information

X1Unreliable marginal note

2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 2 repealed by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. I