New Zealand Gazette – 1914 – No. 92

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✨ Prize Courts Proclamation

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1914.

Constitution of Prize Courts.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL. Governor and Vice-Admiral.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section two of the Prize Courts Act, 1894 (Imperial), it is enacted
that any Commission, Warrant, or instructions from His Majesty the King
or the Admiralty for the purpose of commissioning or regulating the procedure of a
Prize Court in a British possession may, notwithstanding the existence of peace, be
issued at any time, with a direction that the Court shall act only upon Proclamation
made in that possession by the Vice-Admiral thereof that war has broken out
between His Majesty and any foreign State : And whereas in pursuance of the said
enactment the Lords of the Admiralty have by Warrant under the Seal of the Office of
Admiralty, and dated the seventeenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-nine, authorized and required the Supreme Court of New Zealand and the
Chief Justice of New Zealand and all others the Judges for the time being of the
said Court, upon Proclamation being made as aforesaid, to take cognizance of and
judicially to proceed upon all manner of captures, recaptures, seizures, prizes, and
reprisals of all ships, vessels, and goods which shall on the outbreak of war have been
already seized and taken, or which shall thereafter be seized and taken, and which
are or shall be brought within the limits of the said Court, and all other matters of
prize falling within the jurisdiction of the said Court, and to hear and determine the
same according to the course of Admiralty and the Law of Nations and the statutes,
rules, and regulations in that behalf for the time being in force, and to adjudge and
condemn all such ships, vessels, and goods as shall belong to the foreign State
named in such Proclamation, or to the subjects of such State, or to any others
inhabiting within any of the countries, territories, or dominions of the same, or
which are otherwise condemnable as prize and which shall be brought before the said
Supreme Court for adjudication and condemnation :

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1914, No 92

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