Sale of Offices Act 1809

IX Act not to extend to Offices excepted in former Act, nor to Securities or Transactions under legal Securities.

Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to any Office excepted from the Provisions of the said Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth against buying and felling of Offices, or to any Office which was legally saleable before the passing of this Act, and in the Gift of any Person by virtue of any Office of which such Person is or shall be possessed under any Patent or Appointment for his Life, or to render invalid, or in any Manner to affect any Promise, Agreement, Covenant, Contract, Bond, Assurance, or Trust, entered into or declared before the passing of this Act, and which before the passing thereof was a valid Promise, Agreement, Covenant, Contract, Bond, Assurance, or Trust, in Law or Equity, or to any Money paid, or to any Act, Matter, or Thing done in pursuance of any such Promise, Agreement, Covenant, Contract, Bond, or Assurance.