Slave Trade Act 1873

2Interpretation.

Seizure of Slave Ships

3Visitation and seizure by cruisers, &c. of suspected slave ships.

4Vessels equipped for traffic in slaves to be deemed engaged in the slave trade.

5Jurisdiction of courts in regard to slave vessels, slaves, goods, and effects.

6Proceedings upon seizure by a foreigner.

7Appointment of judges, arbitrators, secretary, &c, to mixed courts and commissions.

8Regulations as to powers of mixed courts.

Disposal of Vessels and Slaves

9Disposal of condemned vessels.

10Disposal of slaves.

11Bounty and other payments to seizors when British Cruisers.

12Bounty and other payments where vessel, slave, or goods not seized by cruisers.

13Payment of proceeds of vessels; &c. when seized by a foreign cruiser.

14Regulations as to payment of bounty.

15Payment by Treasury of costs, damages, and expenses.

16Payment and distribution of bounties and other sums.

17Protection of persons authorised to seize.

18Pendency of suit or decree a bar to proceeding for recovery of vessel, damages, &c.

19Power of High Court of Admiralty of England as to bounties, reviewing and enforcing decrees, &c.

20Review of taxation by Registrar of Court of Admiralty.

21Appeal by Treasury.

22Prosecution for false evidence.

23Returns by registrars.

Slave Trade Act, 1824

24Incorporation with unrepealed portions of 5 G.4 c.113.

25Recovery of forfeitures under 5 Geo. 4. c. 113.

26Jurisdiction of court over offences under 5 G.4 c.113.

27Extension of 33 & 34 Vict. c.52 to Slave Trade offences.

Application of Act

28Application of Act to cases already adjudicated.

29Extension of Act to future treaties.

30Repeal of Acts in schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULEEquipments which are primâ facie evidence op a Vessel being engaged in the slave trade

SECOND SCHEDULEActs Repealed

Slave Trade Act 1873

1873 Chapter 88

An Act for consolidating with Amendments the Acts for carrying into effect Treaties for the more effectual Suppression of the Slave Trade, and for other purposes connected with the Slave Trade.

[5th August 1873]

Whereas divers treaties for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade have been made by or on behalf of Her Majesty and Her Royal predecessors with foreign states, and the Acts mentioned in the second schedule to this Act have been passed for carrying into effect the said treaties or some of them:

And whereas it is expedient to consolidate the said Acts into one Act, and to make provision for carrying into effect the said treaties, and any treaty which may hereafter be made by or on behalf of Her Majesty with any foreign state for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade:

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, as follows: