Great Seal Offices Act 1874

4 Abolition of office of messenger of Great Seal, and transfer of duties

After the commencement of this Act the office of messenger or pursuivant of the Great Seal shall as a separate office be abolished.

The powers and duties of the messenger or pursuivant of the Great Seal in relation to writs for the election of members to serve in Parliament shall on the commencement of this Act be transferred to and vested in such officer as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time, with the approval of Her Majesty, appoint, and such officer may, if the Lord Chancellor so direct, be styled messenger of the Great Seal in lieu of or in addition to any other style denoting his office, and the Act of the session of the fifty-third year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter eighty-nine, intituled " An " Act for the more regular conveyance of writs for the election " of members to serve in Parliament," so far as it is unrepealed, shall be construed as if the officer so appointed were therein substituted for the messenger or pursuivant of the Great Seal, with this qualification, that the deputy in that Act mentioned shall be appointed by the Lord Chancellor in writing.

All other duties and powers required to be performed by or vested in the messenger or pursuivant of the Great Seal shall be performed by and vested in such officer as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time direct.

There shall be paid, out of moneys provided by Parliament, to any officer to whom any duties and powers are transferred under this section, such additional salary or remuneration (if any) as the Treasury, upon the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor, may from time to time assign to him.