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ADMIRALTY ACT 1832
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CHAPTER XL.
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An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Business of the Civil Departments of the Navy, and to make other Regulations for more effectually carrying on the Duties of the said Departments.[1]
[1st June 1832.]
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in case his Majesty shall revoke the appointments of the commissioners of the navy and for victualling, &c., the powers and authorities vested in them by any statutes shall be transferred to the commissioners of the Admiralty.
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who shall not thereby be disqualified from sitting in Parliament under 6 Ann. c. 43.
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but not more than five commissioners shall sit in the House of Commons at once.
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WHEREAS his Majesty, by his royal letters patent under the Great Seal bearing date the second day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, was pleased to constitute and appoint certain persons therein named to be principal officers and commissioners of his Majesty’s navy, and by other letters patent under the great seal, bearing date the twenty-fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, was pleased to constitute and appoint certain other persons therein named commissioners for victualling his Majesty’s navy, and for the care of sick and wounded seamen: and whereas it has been deemed expedient that the number of offices in the civil departments of the navy should be reduced, and to that end that the offices or departments of the principal officers and commissioners of his Majesty’s navy, and of the commissioners for victualling his Majesty’s navy, and for the care of sick and wounded seamen, should be abolished: And whereas various duties of the said commissioners being established and regulated by divers Acts of Parliament, it is requisite that such Acts should in some cases be altered, and new provisions made for the due execution of the said duties: Be it therefore enacted by the King’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, that in case his Majesty shall be pleased to cancel and revoke the said letters patent by which the said several persons were respectively constituted and appointed principal officers and commissioners of the navy, and commissioners for victualling his Majesty’s navy and for the care of sick and wounded seamen, as aforesaid, all the interests, titles, authorities, powers, and duties vested in the said respective commissioners by any Act or Acts of Parliament, and every matter relating to them and their respective offices, shall from and after such revocation be and the same are hereby declared to be transferred to the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, and shall be vested in and exercised by them in as full and ample a manner, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been named in the said Acts instead of the commissioners of his Majesty’s navy, and the commissioners for victualling his Majesty’s navy, and for the care of sick and wounded seamen respectively, subject however to the provisions herein-after established: Provided always, that such transfer shall not be deemed to confer on the said commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral aforesaid any new office within the meaning of an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Anne, intituled “An Act for the security of her Majesty’s person and government, and of the succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the Protestant line”; nor shall any such commissioner last-mentioned, by taking upon himself, under any new letters patent which his Majesty may think fit to cause to be issued, the duties of the offices so abolished, be disqualified from sitting and voting in Parliament, or thereby vacate the seat in Parliament which any such commissioner may then hold; any thing contained in the said Act of Queen Anne, or in any other Act, or any usage of Parliament, to the contrary notwithstanding; but it is nevertheless hereby declared, that from and after the passing of this Act no greater number than five commissioners of the Admiralty shall be competent at any one time to sit and vote in the Commons House of Parliament.
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[Ss. 2–4 rep. 28 & 29 Vict. c. 112. s. 1.]
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Commissioners of the Admiralty may administer oaths and act as justices.
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5. It shall be lawful for the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral aforesaid for the time being, or any one or more of them, and they and each of them are and is hereby empowered, to administer an oath or oaths in any cases touching or concerning his Majesty’s naval monies, stores, victuals, or provisions, or the accounts thereof, or in any other matter relating to his Majesty’s naval service, and also from time to time, in all places whatever, to execute the office and authority of a justice of the peace in as full and ample a manner as any commissioners of the navy or victualling are by any Act of Parliament now in force, or any justice under any commission is authorized to execute the same; and all keepers of gaols, and all constables and other peace officers, are hereby respectively required from time to time diligently to execute and obey all such warrants as shall be lawfully made, directed, or given to them or any of them by any one or more of the said commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral aforesaid; and all the laws made or to be made for the ease, safety, and protection of justices of the peace in the execution of their office shall extend to the said last-mentioned commissioners, and to all constables and other peace officers and persons acting under the warrant or authority of any such commissioners, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if they were herein enacted.
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Two commissioners of the Admiralty may execute all powers.
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6. [Recital and repeal of 3 Geo. 4. c. 19.] It shall be lawful for any two or more commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral aforesaid, and they are hereby empowered, to exercise and execute all powers, authorities, and duties, and to perform and do all acts, matters, and things appertaining to their office, which by any Act or Acts of Parliament are authorized or required to be executed or done by three or more of them, or by the commissioners of the navy and victualling respectively; and all such authorities, duties, matters, and things executed and performed by two or more of the said commissioners of the Admiralty shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes.
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Style and title of the commissioners.
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7. In all deeds, conveyances, leases, contracts, aad other instruments touching any estate, property, matter, or thing relating to the naval service, or to any department under the controul of the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral aforesaid, or whereto they or any of them shall be parties, it shall be sufficient to describe them generally by the style and title of “The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,” without expressing their names; and all such deeds, conveyances, leases, contracts, and other instruments wherein the said commissioners shall be so described, and the execution thereof by any two of them, shall be as valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as if they or any of them had been expressly named therein.
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[Ss. 8–36 and Sched. rep. 28 & 29 Vict. c. 112 s. 1.]
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[1 Short title, “The Admiralty Act, 1832.” See Short titles Act, 1892.] |
