Statute Law Revision (Substituted Enactments) Act, 1876

Substitution of certain enactments for the repealed enactments mentioned in 12 & 13 Vict. c. 25.

2. There shall be repealed so much of section two of the Act of the session of the twelfth and thirteenth yearn of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twenty-five, intituled “An Act for giving “effect to the stipulations of a treaty between Her Majesty and “the Queen of Portugal for the apprehension of certain deserters,” as provides, by reference to an Act of Parliament since repealed, for the recovery, payment, and application of the penalty therein mentioned for harbouring or secreting a seaman or apprentice having deserted from his ship, and in place thereof be it enacted as follows:

The penalty under section two of the Act of the session of the twelfth and thirteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twenty-five, intituled “An Act for giving effect to the “stipulations of a treaty between Her Majesty and the Queen of “Portugal for the apprehension of certain deserters,” shall be recovered, paid, and applied in the same manner as a penalty for harbouring or secreting any seaman deserting from a British ship is for the time being recoverable, payable, and applicable.