Larceny (Advertisements) Act, 1870

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LARCENY (ADVERTISEMENTS) ACT 1870

CHAPTER LXV.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Advertisements respecting Stolen Goods. [9th August 1870.]

[Preamble recites 24 & 25 Vict. c. 96 s. 102.]

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as “The Larceny (Advertisements) Act, 1870,” and shall be construed as one with the recited Act, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as “The Larceny Acts, 1861 and 1870.”

Definition of “newspaper.”

2. In this Act the term “newspaper” means a newspaper as defined for the purposes of the Acts for the time being in force relating to the carriage of newspapers by post.

Limitation of actions for advertisements of reward for return of stolen property.

3. Every action against the printer or publisher of a newspaper to recover a forfeiture under section one hundred and two of the Larceny Act, 1861, shall be brought within six months after the forfeiture is incurred, and no such action against the printer or publisher of a newspaper shall be brought unless the assent in writing of Her Majesty’s Attorney General or Solicitor General for England, if the action is brought in England, or for Ireland, if the action is brought in Ireland, has been first obtained to the bringing of such action.

[S. 4 rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39. (S.L.R.)]