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An Act for repealing the Laws now in force relating to the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea.
[15th July 1828]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
C2Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1890 (c. 33)
Textual Amendments
F1S. 1 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1873 (c. 91)
And whereas the publication of the Nautical Almanack, constructed by proper persons, for the finding of the longitude at sea, is of great importance to the safety of ships and persons, and highly conducive to the general interests of commerce and navigation: It shall and may be lawful to and for the lord high admiral or the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being to cause such nautical almanacks, or other useful table or tables, which he or they shall from time to time judge necessary and useful in order to facilitate the method of discovering the longitude at sea, to be constructed, printed, published, and vended, free of all stamp duty whatever, in the same manner as the commissioners under the said Act of the fifty-eighth year of his late Majesty’s reign might or could do; and that every person who, without the special licence and authority of the lord high admiral or commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral aforesaid for the time being, . . . F2, shall print, publish, or vend, or cause to be printed, published, or vended, any such almanack or almanacks, or other table or tables, shall, for every copy of such almanack or table so printed, published, or vended, forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds, to be recovered . . . F3, by any person to be authorized for that purpose by the lord high admiral or commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral aforesaid, . . . F2 by action [F4or information] in any of his Majesty’s courts of record at [F5the Royal Courts of Justice]; and that the proceeds of the said penalty, when recovered, shall be paid and applied to the use of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
Textual Amendments
F2Words repealed by S.I. 1964/488, Sch. 1 Pt. II
F3Words repealed by Administration of Justice Act 1965 (c. 2), Sch. 2
F4Words repealed (N.I.) by Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 (c. 18), Sch. 2 Pt. II
F5Words substituted by virtue of Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c. 49), s. 224(1)
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