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Section 27: Prize jurisdiction of High Court.

Senior Courts Act 1981 · 1981 c. 54View on legislation.gov.uk

Part II: JURISDICTION — : The High Court

The High Court shall, in accordance with section 19(2), have as a prize court—

all such jurisdiction as is conferred on it by the Prize Acts 1864 to 1944 (in which references to the High Court of Admiralty are by virtue of paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to this Act to be construed as references to the High Court); and
all such other jurisdiction on the high seas and elsewhere as it had as a prize court immediately before the commencement of this Act.

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