Admiralty Act, 1832

Style and title of the commissioners.

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.

[Ss. 8–36 and Sched. rep. 28 & 29 Vict. c. 112 s. 1.]