Piracy Act, 1837
PIRACY ACT 1837 | ||
C A P. LXXXVIII. | ||
An Act to amend certain Acts relating to the Crime of Piracy. [17th July 1837.] | ||
28 H. 8. c. 15. | ||
11 & 12 W. 3. c. 7. | ||
4 G. 1. c. 11. s. 7. | ||
8 G. 1. c. 24. | ||
13 G. 2. c. 30. | ||
Repeal of Provisions in recited Acts. | ||
‘Whereas it is expedient to amend so much of an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled For Pirates, and so much of an Act passed in the Eleventh and Twenfth Years of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled An Act for the more effectual Suppression of Piracy, and so much of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled An Act for the further preventing Robbery, Burglary, and other Felonies, and for the more effectual Transportation of Felons and unlawful Exporters of Wool, and for declaring the Law upon some Points relating to Pirates, and so much of an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act for the more effectual suppressing of Piracy, and so much of an Act passed in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act to amend an Act made in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled ‘An Act for the more effectual Suppression of Piracy,’ as relates to the Punishment of the Crime of Piracy, or of any Offence by any of the said Acts declared to be Piracy, or of Accessaries thereto respectively:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That so much of the said several Acts as is herein-before referred to shall from and after the Commencement of this Act be and the same is hereby repealed. |