House of Commons Offices Act 1856

1856 CHAPTER 1

An Act to regulate certain Offices of the House of Commons.

[28th February 1856]

WHEREAS under an [52 G. 3. c. 11.] Act of King George the Third, Chapter Eleven, intituled An Act to repeal an Act passed in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Year of His present Majesty, for establishing certain Regulations in the Offices of the House of Commons, and to establish other and further Regulations in the said Offices, the Clerk of the House of Commons has the Power of Nomination or Appointment of all the Clerks in his Department, together with the Power of Suspension and Removal of all the Clerks so by him nominated or appointed : And whereas Sir Denis Le Marchant Baronet, on being appointed Clerk of, the House of Commons, agreed that the Clerk Assistant and Second Clerk Assistant of the House should thereafter be appointed by Her Majesty : And whereas Her Majesty has, on the Recommendation of the Speaker, signified Her Pleasure that Thomas Erskine May Esquire be appointed Clerk Assistant of the said House ; but the Powers of Appointment under the said Act cannot be varied without the Authority of Parliament :

Be it 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 :