Municipal Corporations Act 1883

13 Saving as to Cinque Ports

With respect to any cinque port or ancient town or member of a cinque port mentioned in the schedules to this Act, the following provisions shall hare effect:—

(1) Nothing in this Act shall diminish the jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports within the boundaries denned by the Act of the session of the first and second years of the reign of King George the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled "An Act to continue and amend certain Acts for ' preventing the various frauds and depredations committed " on merchants, shipowners, and underwriters by boatmen and " others within the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports ; and also " for remedying certain defects relative to the adjustment of ' salvage under' a statute made in the twelfth year of the " reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne," or of any commissioners appointed in pursuance of that Act:

(2) Nothing in this Act shall increase the authority or jurisdiction which any cinque port, or any court, justice, or officer of a cinque port, has over any member of a cinque port, notwithstanding that that member is, in pursuance of this Act, no longer corporate:

(3) The non-corporate members of any such cinque port or ancient town shall form part of the body of the county, and hundred, and other division in which those members are respectively situate.