Consolidated Fund Act 1816

XVIVice Treasurer and Commissioners of the Treasury may sit in Parliament.

And be it further enacted, That the Appointment of any Person to be Vice Treasurer for Ireland, nor the Appointment of any Person or Persons to be Commissioner or Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall not, nor shall any such Appointment be deemed or taken to be an Appointment or Appointments to a new Office or new Offices, or Place or Places of Profit under the Crown; and that any Person so to be appointed Vice Treasurer for Ireland, or One of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall not, nor shall any of them, be thereby disabled from fitting or voting as a Member of the House of Commons, nor shall he be thereby rendered incapable of being elected a Member of the House of Commons ; any Thing in any Act or Acts to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.