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Life Annuities Act 1808

1808 CHAPTER 142 48 Geo 3

An Act for enabling the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to grant Life Annuities.

[2d July 1808]

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C1Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)

C2Preamble (which recited National Debt Reduction Act 1786 (c. 31), and the Acts 32 Geo. 3 c. 55 and 42 Geo. 3 c. 71) repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1872 (c. 97)

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32 The chief baron added to the number of commissioners for the reduction of the national debt.U.K.

And whereas by the said recited Act of the twenty-sixth year of his present Majesty’s reign the speaker of the House of Commons, the Chancellor of his Majesty’s Exchequer, the master of the Rolls, [F8the Accountant-General of the Supreme Court], and the governor and deputy governor of the Bank of England for the time being respectively were appointed commissioners for carrying the said Act into execution: In addition to the commissioners appointed by the said Act, [F9the Lord Chief Justice], or in his absence, any one of [F10the judges of the High Court] for the time being respectively, shall be a commissioner for carrying into execution the purposes of the said recited Acts of the twenty-sixth, thirty-second, and forty-second years of his present Majesty’s reign and of this Act, and shall have and be invested with such and the same powers and authorities in all respects as if the chief baron or baron of the said Court of Exchequer respectively had been appointed a commissioner by the said Act of the twenty-sixth year aforesaid.

32 The chief baron added to the number of commissioners for the reduction of the national debt.U.K.

And whereas by the said recited Act of the twenty-sixth year of his present Majesty’s reign the speaker of the House of Commons, the Chancellor of his Majesty’s Exchequer, the master of the Rolls, [F11the Accountant-General of the Supreme Court], and the governor and [F12deputy governors] of the Bank of England for the time being respectively were appointed commissioners for carrying the said Act into execution: In addition to the commissioners appointed by the said Act, [F13the Lord Chief Justice], or in his absence, any one of [F14the judges of the High Court] for the time being respectively, shall be a commissioner for carrying into execution the purposes of the said recited Acts of the twenty-sixth, thirty-second, and forty-second years of his present Majesty’s reign and of this Act, and shall have and be invested with such and the same powers and authorities in all respects as if the chief baron or baron of the said Court of Exchequer respectively had been appointed a commissioner by the said Act of the twenty-sixth year aforesaid.

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