[AS AMENDED IN COMMITTEE.] ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Clauses. 1. Short Title. 2. Extent of Act. 3. Interpretation. 4. 25 & 26 Vict. c. 64. repealed. 5. Marks in Schedule appropriated for Her Majesty's Naval and Victualling Stores. Imitation a Misdemeanour. 6. Obliteration with Intent to conceal Her Majesty's Property, Felony. 7. Knowingly receiving, &c. marked Stores a Misdemeanour. 8. Knowledge of Stores being marked presumed against Dealers, &c. 9. Offenders may be summarily convicted in certain Cases. 10. Effect of Conviction of Dealer in old Metals. 11. Persons not Dealers in Marine Stores, &c. found in possession of Naval or Victualling Stores, and not satisfactorily accounting for it, liable to Penalty. 12. Criminal Possession explained. 13. No unauthorized Person to creep, &c. for Stores within One hundred Yards of Dockyards, &c. 14. Parts of 24 & 25 Vict. c. 96. (Larceny) incorporated. 15. Admiralty alone to prosecute. 16. Penalties, &c. to be applied under Orders of Admiralty. 17. Saving for Indictment. SCHEDULE. A BILL [AS AMENDED IN COMMITTEE] INTITULED An Act for the more effectual Protection of Her B E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and bled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 5 1. This Act may be cited as The Naval and Victualling Stores Short Title. Act, 1864. 2. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. Extent of 3. In this Act 10 15 Interpreta The Term "the Admiralty" means the Lord High Admiral of tion. the United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing the The Term "Dealer in Marine Stores means a Person bound to conform to the Regulations of The Merchant Shipping 17 & 18 Vict. Act, 1854, Section Four hundred and eighty: c. 104. The Term "Dealer in old Metals" has the same Meaning as in 24 & 25 Vict. c. 110. 25 & 26 Vict. c. 64. re pealed as to future Offences. Marks in appropriated Naval and The Termin Her Majesty's Service," when applied to Persons, applies also to Persons in the Employment of the Admiralty: The Term "Stores " includes any single Store or Article. 4. The Naval and Victualling Stores Act, 1862, is hereby 5 repealed; but this Repeal or anything in this Act shall not apply to or in respect of any Offence, Act, or Thing committed or done before the passing of this Act. 5. The Marks described in the Schedule to this Act may be applied in or on Her Majesty's Naval and Victualling Stores to 10 denote Her Majesty's Property in Stores so marked. It shall be lawful for the Admiralty, their Contractors, Officers, Victualling and Workmen, to apply the said Marks or any of them in or on any such Stores as are described in the said Schedule. Stores. Imitation a Misdemeanour. Obliteration, to conceal Her Ma If any Person, without lawful Authority (Proof of which 15 Authority shall lie on the Party accused), applies any of the said Marks in or on any such Stores he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanour, and shall be liable to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour. 6. If any Person, with Intent to conceal Her Majesty's Property 20 with Intent in any Naval or Victualling Stores, takes out, destroys, or obliterates, wholly or in part, any such Mark as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of Felony, and shall be liable, in the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Four Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or 25 without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement. jesty's Property, Felony. Knowingly receiving, &c. marked Stores a Misdemeanour. Knowledge of Stores being marked presumed against Dealers, &c. 7. If any Person, without lawful Authority (Proof of which Authority shall lie on the Party accused), receives, possesses, keeps, sells, or delivers any Naval or Victualling Stores bearing, any such Mark as aforesaid, knowing them to bear such Mark, 30 he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanour, and shall be liable to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding One Year, with or without Hard Labour. 8. Where the Person charged with such a Misdemeanour as last aforesaid was at the Time at which the Offence is charged to have 35 been committed a Dealer in Marine Stores, or a Dealer in Old Metals, or in Her Majesty's Service, Knowledge on his Part that the Stores to which the Charge relates bore such Mark as aforesaid shall be presumed until the contrary is shown. |