Defence Act 1842

1842 CHAPTER 94

An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Services of the Ordnance Department, and the vesting and Purchase of Lands and Hereditaments for those Services, and for the Defence and Security of the Realm.

[10th August 1842]

WHEREAS by an [44 G. 3. c. 95.] Act passed in the Forty-fourth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend certain of the Provisions of an Act made in the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty, to enable His Majesty to provide for the Defence and Security of the Realm, which respect the Purchase of Lands and Hereditaments for the public Service : And whereas by an [1 & 2 G. 4. c. 69.] Act passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied for the Ordnance Service in the principal Officers of the Ordnance, and for granting certain Powers to the said principal Officers : And whereas by an [3 G. 4. c. 108.] Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied for the Barrack Service in any Part of the United Kingdom in the principal Officers of His Majesty's Ordnance, and for granting certain Powers to the said principal Officers in relation thereto: And whereas by an [2 & 3 W. 4. c. 25.] Act passed in the Second Year of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to extend and render more effectual Two Acts, of the First and Second and Third Years of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, respecting the Estates thereby vested in the principal Officers of the Ordnance, and to facilitate the public Business in the Ordnance Department, various Provisions have been heretofore made for the Purchase of Lands and Hereditaments for the public Service, and for the Defence and Security of the Realm, and for vesting all Estates and Property purchased, taken, used, or occupied for the Ordnance and Barrack Service throughout the United Kingdom in the principal Officers of the Ordnance, and for granting certain Powers to the said principal Officers in relation thereto, and for facilitating the Despatch of the public Business in the Ordnance Department : And whereas it will be expedient to consolidate and embody in One Act the Powers and Provisions of the said several Acts, and to amend and enlarge the same :

Be it therefore 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,