Registry of Ships Act 1787

Penalties, how to be recovered and applied.

XLI. And be it further enacted, That all the penalties and forfeitures inflicted and incurred by this act (except in cases where it is herein otherwise provided) shall and may be sued, prosecuted, and recovered by action or information, in any of his Majesty’s courts of record at Dublin; and that the officer or officers concerned in seizures or prosecutions under this act, shall be entitled to, and receive the same share of the produce arising from such seizures as in the case of seizure for unlawful importation, and to such share of the produce arising from any pecuniary fine or penalty for any offence against this act, as any officer or officers is or are now by any law or regulation entitled to upon prosecutions for pecuniary penalties.