(1869, July 26. 32 & 33 Victoria, c. 42.)
WHEREAS it is expedient that the union created by act of parliament between the churches of England and Ireland, as by law established, should be dissolved, and that the Church of Ireland, as so separated, should cease to be established by law, and that after satisfying, so far as possible, upon principles of equality as between the several religious denominations of Ireland, all just and equitable claims, the property of the said Church of Ireland, or the proceeds thereof, should be applied in such manner as parliament shall hereafter direct:
And whereas Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify that she has placed at the disposal of parliament her interests in the several archbishoprics, bishoprics, benefices, cathedral preferments, and other ecclesiastical dignities and offices in Ireland:
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, as follows:
1. This act may be cited for all purposes as “The Irish Church Act, 1869.”
2. On and after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one the said union created by act of parliament between the Churches of England and Ireland shall be dissolved, and the said Church of Ireland, herein-after referred to as “the said church,” shall cease to be established by law.
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(1870, August 9. 33 & 34 Victoria, c. 75.)
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SUPPLY OF SCHOOLS
5. THERE shall be provided for every school district a sufficient amount of accommodation in public elementary schools (as herein-after defined) available for all the children resident in such district for whose elementary education efficient and suitable provision is not otherwise made, and where there is an insufficient amount of such accommodation, in this act referred to as “public school accommodation,” the deficiency shall be supplied in manner provided by this act.
6. Where the education department, in the manner provided by this act, are satisfied and have given public notice that there is an insufficient amount of such accommodation for any school district, and the deficiency is not supplied as herein-after required, a school board shall be formed for such district and shall supply such deficiency, and in case of default by the school board the education department shall cause the duty of such board to be performed in manner provided by this act.
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MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF SCHOOLS BY SCHOOL BOARD
14. Every school provided by a school board shall be conducted under the control and management of such board in accordance with the following regulations:
(1) The school shall be a public elementary school within the meaning of this act:
(2) No religious catechism or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination shall be taught in the school.
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17. Every child attending a school provided by any school board shall pay such weekly fee as may be prescribed by the school board, with the consent of the education department, but the school board may from time to time, for a renewable period not exceeding six months, remit the whole or any part of such fee in the case of any child when they are of opinion that the parent of such child is unable from poverty to pay the same, but such remission shall not be deemed to be parochial relief given to such parent.
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CONSTITUTION OF SCHOOL BOARDS
29. The school board shall be elected in manner provided by this act, in a borough by the persons whose names are on the burgess roll of such borough for the time being in force, and in a parish not situate in the metropolis by the ratepayers.
At every such election every voter shall be entitled to a number of votes equal to the number of the members of the school board to be elected, and may give all such votes to one candidate, or may distribute them among the candidates, as he thinks fit.
The school board in the metropolis shall be elected in manner herein-after provided by this act.
30. With respect to the constitution of a school board the following provisions shall have effect:
(1) The school board shall be a body corporate, by the name of the school board of the district to which they belong, having a perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire and hold land for the purposes of this act without any license in mortmain:
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40. Where the education department are of opinion that it would be expedient to form a school district larger than a borough or a parish or any school district formed under this act, they may, except in the metropolis, by order made after such inquiry and notice as herein-after mentioned, form a united school district by uniting any two or more adjoining school districts, and upon such union cause a school board to be formed for such united school district.
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(1872, July 18. 35 & 36 Victoria, c. 33.)
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to procedure at parliamentary and municipal elections:
Be it 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, as follows:
PART I
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
PROCEDURE AT ELECTIONS
1. A candidate for election to serve in parliament for a county or borough shall be nominated in writing. The writing shall be subscribed by two registered electors of such county or borough as proposer and seconder, and by eight other registered electors of the same county or borough as assenting to the nomination, and shall be delivered during the time appointed for the election to the returning officer by the candidate himself, or his proposer or seconder.
If at the expiration of one hour after the time appointed for the election no more candidates stand nominated than there are vacancies to be filled up, the returning officer shall forthwith declare the candidates who may stand nominated to be elected, and return their names to the clerk of the crown in chancery; but if at the expiration of such hour more candidates stand nominated than there are vacancies to be filled up, the returning officer shall adjourn the election and shall take a poll in manner in this act mentioned.
A candidate may, during the time appointed for the election, but not afterwards, withdraw from his candidature by giving a notice to that effect, signed by him, to the returning officer: provided that the proposer of a candidate nominated in his absence out of the United Kingdom may withdraw such candidate by a written notice signed by him and delivered to the returning officer, together with a written declaration of such absence of the candidate.
If after the adjournment of an election by the returning officer for the purpose of taking a poll one of the candidates nominated shall die before the poll has commenced, the returning officer shall, upon being satisfied of the fact of such death, countermand notice of the poll, and all the proceedings with reference to the election shall be commenced afresh in all respects as if the writ had been received by the returning officer on the day on which proof was given to him of such death; provided that no fresh nomination shall be necessary in the case of a candidate who stood nominated at the time of the countermand of the poll.
2. In the case of a poll at an election the votes shall be given by ballot. The ballot of each voter shall consist of a paper (in this act called a ballot paper) showing the names and description of the candidates. Each ballot paper shall have a number printed on the back, and shall have attached a counterfoil with the same number printed on the face. At the time of voting, the ballot paper shall be marked on both sides with an official mark, and delivered to the voter within the polling station, and the number of such voter on the register of voters shall be marked on the counterfoil, and the voter having secretly marked his vote on the paper, and folded it up so as to conceal his vote, shall place it in a closed box in the presence of the officer presiding at the polling station (in this act called “the presiding officer”) after having shown to him the official mark at the back.
Any ballot paper which has not on its back the official mark, or on which votes are given to more candidates than the voter is entitled to vote for, or on which anything, except the said number on the back, is written or marked by which the voter can be identified, shall be void and not counted.
After the close of the poll the ballot boxes shall be sealed up, so as to prevent the introduction of additional ballot papers, and shall be taken charge of by the returning officer, and that officer shall, in the presence of such agents, if any, of the candidates as may be in attendance, open the ballot boxes, and ascertain the result of the poll by counting the votes given to each candidate, and shall forthwith declare to be elected the candidates or candidate to whom the majority of votes have been given, and return their names to the clerk of the crown in chancery. The decision of the returning officer as to any question arising in respect of any ballot paper shall be final, subject to reversal on petition questioning the election or return.
Where an equality of votes is found to exist between any candidates at an election for a county or borough, and the addition of a vote would entitle any of such candidates to be declared elected, the returning officer, if a registered elector of such county or borough, may give such additional vote, but shall not in any other case be entitled to vote at an election for which he is returning officer.
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PART II
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
20. The poll at every contested municipal election shall, so far as circumstances admit, be conducted in the manner in which the poll is by this act directed to be conducted at a contested parliamentary election, and, subject to the modifications expressed in the schedules annexed hereto, such provision of this act and of the said schedules as relate to or are concerned with a poll at a parliamentary election shall apply to a poll at a contested municipal election: * * *
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(1873, August 5. 36 & 37 Victoria, c. 66.)
WHEREAS it is expedient to constitute a supreme court, and to make provision for the better administration of justice in England:
And whereas it is also expedient to alter and amend the law relating to the judicial committee of Her Majesty’s privy council:
Be it 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, as follows:
PRELIMINARY
1. This act may be cited for all purposes as the “Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1873.”
2. This act, except any provision thereof which is declared to take effect on the passing of this act, shall commence and come into operation on the second day of November, 1874.
PART I
CONSTITUTION AND JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT
3. From and after the time appointed for the commencement of this act, the several courts herein-after mentioned, (that is to say,) the high court of chancery of England, the court of queen’s bench, the court of common pleas at Westminster, the court of exchequer, the high court of admiralty, the court of probate, the court for divorce and matrimonial causes, and the London court of bankruptcy, shall be united and consolidated together, and shall constitute, under and subject to the provisions of this act, one supreme court of judicature in England.
4. The said supreme court shall consist of two permanent divisions, one of which, under the name of “Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice,” shall have and exercise original jurisdiction, with such appellate jurisdiction from inferior courts as is hereinafter mentioned, and the other of which, under the name of “Her Majesty’s Court of Appeal,” shall have and exercise appellate jurisdiction, with such original jurisdiction as herein-after mentioned as may be incident to the determination of any appeal.
5. Her Majesty’s high court of justice shall be constituted as follows:— The first judges thereof shall be the lord chancellor, the lord chief justice of England, the master of the rolls, the lord chief justice of the common pleas, the lord chief baron of the exchequer, the several vice-chancellors of the high court of chancery, the judge of the court of probate and of the court for divorce and matrimonial causes, the several puisne justices of the courts of queen’s bench and common pleas respectively, the several junior barons of the court of exchequer, and the judge of the high court of admiralty, except such, if any, of the aforesaid judges as shall be appointed ordinary judges of the court of appeal.
Subject to the provisions herein-after contained, whenever the office of a judge of the said high court shall become vacant, a new judge may be appointed thereto by Her Majesty, by letters patent. All persons to be hereafter appointed to fill the places of the lord chief justice of England, the master of the rolls, the lord chief justice of the common pleas, and the lord chief baron, and their successors respectively, shall continue to be appointed to the same respective offices, with the same precedence, and by the same respective titles, and in the same manner, respectively, as heretofore. Every judge who shall be appointed to fill the place of any other judge of the said high court of justice shall be styled in his appointment “Judge of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice,” and shall be appointed in the same manner in which the puisne justices and junior barons of the superior courts of common law have been heretofore appointed: provided always, that if at the commencement of this act the number of puisne justices and junior barons who shall become judges of the said high court shall exceed twelve in the whole, no new judge of the said high court shall be appointed in the place of any such puisne justice or junior baron who shall die or resign while such whole number shall exceed twelve, it being intended that the permanent number of judges of the said high court shall not exceed twenty-one.
All the judges of the said court shall have in all respects, save as in this act is otherwise expressly provided, equal power, authority, and jurisdiction; and shall be addressed in the manner which is now customary in addressing the judges of the superior courts of common law.
The lord chief justice of England for the time being shall be president of the said high court of justice in the absence of the lord chancellor.
Her Majesty’s court of appeal shall be constituted as follows:- There shall be five ex-officio judges thereof, and also so many ordinary judges (not exceeding nine at any one time) as Her Majesty shall from time to time appoint. The ex-officio judges shall be the lord chancellor, the lord chief justice of England, the master of the rolls, the lord chief justice of the common pleas, and the lord chief baron of the exchequer. The first ordinary judges of the said court shall be the existing lords justices of appeal in chancery, the existing salaried judges of the judicial committee of Her Majesty’s privy council, appointed under the “Judicial Committee Act, 1871,” and such three other persons as Her Majesty may be pleased to appoint by letters patent; such appointment may be made either within one month before or at any time after the day appointed for the commencement of this act, but if made before shall take effect at the commencement of this act.
Besides the said ex-officio judges and ordinary judges, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty (if she shall think fit), from time to time to appoint under her royal sign manual, as additional judges of the court of appeal, any persons who, having held in England the office of a judge of the superior courts of Westminster hereby united and consolidated, or of Her Majesty’s supreme court hereby constituted, or in Scotland the office of lord justice general or lord justice clerk, or in Ireland the office of lord chancellor or lord justice of appeal, or in India the office of chief justice of the high court of judicature at Fort William in Bengal, or Madras, or Bombay, shall respectively signify in writing their willingness to serve as such additional judges in the court of appeal. No such additional judge shall be deemed to have undertaken the duty of sitting in the court of appeal when prevented from so doing by attendance in the house of lords, or on the discharge of any other public duty, or by any other reasonable impediment.
The ordinary and additional judges of the court of appeal shall be styled lords justices of appeal. All the judges of the said court shall have, in all respects, save as in this act is otherwise expressly mentioned, equal power, authority, and jurisdiction.
Whenever the office of an ordinary judge of the court of appeal becomes vacant, a new judge may be appointed thereto by Her Majesty by letters patent.
The lord chancellor for the time being shall be president of the court of appeal.
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9. All judges of the high court of justice, and of the court of appeal respectively, shall hold their offices for life, subject to a power of removal by Her Majesty, on an address presented to Her Majesty by both houses of parliament. No judge of either of the said courts shall be capable of being elected to or of sitting in the house of commons. Every judge of either of the said courts (other than the lord chancellor) when he enters on the execution of his office, shall take, in the presence of the lord chancellor, the oath of allegiance, and judicial oath as defined by the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868. The oaths to be taken by the lord chancellor shall be the same as heretofore.
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PART II
JURISDICTION AND LAW
16. The high court of justice shall be a superior court of record, and, subject as in this act mentioned, there shall be transferred to and vested in the said high court of justice the jurisdiction which, at the commencement of this act, was vested in, or capable of being exercised by, all or any of the courts following; (that is to say,)
(1) The high court of chancery, as a common law court as well as a court of equity, including the jurisdiction of the master of the rolls, as a judge or master of the court of chancery, and any jurisdiction exercised by him in relation to the court of chancery as a common law court;
(2) The court of queen’s bench;
(3) The court of common pleas at Westminster;
(4) The court of exchequer, as a court of revenue, as well as a common law court;
(5) The high court of admiralty;
(6) The court of probate;
(7) The court for divorce and matrimonial causes;
(8) The London court of bankruptcy;
(9) The court of common pleas at Lancaster.
(10) The court of pleas at Durham;
(11) The courts created by commissions of assize, of oyer and terminer, and of jail delivery, or any of such commissions:
The jurisdiction by this act transferred to the high court of justice shall include, (subject to the exceptions herein-after contained,) the jurisdiction which, at the commencement of this act, was vested in, or capable of being exercised by, all or any one or more of the judges of the said courts, respectively, sitting in court or chambers, or elsewhere, when acting as judges or a judge, in pursuance of any statute, law, or custom, and all powers given to any such court, or to any such judges or judge, by any statute; and also all ministerial powers, duties, and authorities, incident to any and every part of the jurisdictions so transferred.
17. There shall not be transferred to or vested in the said high court of justice, by virtue of this act,—
(1) Any appellate jurisdiction of the court of appeal in chancery, or of the same court sitting as a court of appeal in bankruptcy:
(2) Any jurisdiction of the court of appeal in chancery of the county palatine of Lancaster:
(3) Any jurisdiction usually vested in the lord chancellor or in the lords justices of appeal in chancery, or either of them, in relation to the custody of the persons and estates of idiots, lunatics, and persons of unsound mind:
(4) Any jurisdiction vested in the lord chancellor in relation to grants of letters patent, or the issue of commissions or other writings, to be passed under the great seal of the United Kingdom:
(5) Any jurisdiction exercised by the lord chancellor in right of or on behalf of Her Majesty as visitor of any college, or of any charitable or other foundation:
(6) Any jurisdiction of the master of the rolls in relation to records in London or elsewhere in England.
18. The court of appeal established by this act shall be a superior court of record, and there shall be transferred to and vested in such court all jurisdictions and powers of the courts following; (that is to say,)
(1) All jurisdictions and powers of the lord chancellor and of the court of appeal in chancery, in the exercise of his and its appellate jurisdiction, and of the same court as a court of appeal in bankruptcy:
(2) All jurisdiction and powers of the court of appeal in chancery of the county palatine of Lancaster, and all jurisdiction and powers of the chancellor of the duchy and county palatine of Lancaster when sitting alone or apart from the lords justices of appeal in chancery as a judge of re-hearing or appeal from decrees or orders of the court of chancery of the county palatine of Lancaster:
(3) All jurisdiction and powers of the court of the lord warden of the Stannaries assisted by his assessors, including all jurisdiction and powers of the said lord warden when sitting in his capacity. of judge:
(4) All jurisdiction and powers of the court of exchequer chamber:
(5) All jurisdiction vested in or capable of being exercised by Her Majesty in council, or the judicial committee of Her Majesty’s privy council, upon appeal from any judgment or order of the high court of admiralty, or from any order in lunacy made by the lord chancellor, or any other person having jurisdiction in lunacy.
19. The said court of appeal shall have jurisdiction and power to hear and determine appeals from any judgment or order, save as herein-after mentioned, of Her Majesty’s high court of justice, or of any judges or judge thereof, subject to the provisions of this act, and to such rules and orders of court for regulating the terms and conditions on which such appeals shall be allowed, as may be made pursuant to this act.
For all the purposes of and incidental to the hearing and determination of any appeal within its jurisdiction, and the amendment, execution, and enforcement of any judgment or order made on any such appeal, and for the purpose of every other authority expressly given to the court of appeal by this act, the said court of appeal shall have all the power, authority, and jurisdiction by this act vested in the high court of justice.
20. No error or appeal shall be brought from any judgment or order of the high court of justice, or of the court of appeal, nor from any judgment or order, subsequent to the commencement of this act, of the court of chancery of the county palatine of Lancaster, to the house of lords or to the judicial committee of Her Majesty’s privy council; but nothing in this act shall prejudice any right existing at the commencement of this act to prosecute any pending writ of error or appeal, or to bring error or appeal to the house of lords or to Her Majesty in council, or to the judicial committee of the privy council, from any prior judgment or order of any court whose jurisdiction is hereby transferred to the high court of justice or to the court of appeal.
21. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, if she shall think fit, at any time hereafter by order in council to direct that all appeals and petitions whatsoever to Her Majesty in council which according to the laws now in force ought to be heard by or before the judicial committee of Her Majesty’s privy council, shall, from and after a time to be fixed by such order, be referred for hearing to and be heard by Her Majesty’ s court of appeal; and from and after the time fixed by such order, all such appeals and petitions shall be referred for hearing to and be heard by the said court of appeal accordingly, and shall not be heard by the said judicial committee; and for all the purposes of and incidental to the hearing of such appeals or petitions, and the reports to be made to Her Majesty thereon, and all orders thereon to be afterwards made by Her Majesty in council, and also for all purposes of and incidental to the enforcement of any such orders as may be made by the said court of appeals or by Her Majesty, pursuant to this section (but not for any other purpose), all the power, authority, and jurisdiction now by law vested in the said judicial committee shall be transferred to and vested in the said court of appeal.
The court of appeal, when hearing any appeals in ecclesiastical causes which may be referred to it in manner aforesaid, shall be constituted of such and so many of the judges thereof, and shall be assisted by such assessors being archbishops or bishops of the Church of England, as Her Majesty, by any general rules made with the advice of the judges of the said court, or any five of them (of whom the lord chancellor shall be one), and of the archbishops and bishops who are members of Her Majesty’s privy council, or any two of them (and which general rules shall be made by order in council), may think fit to direct: provided that such rules shall be laid before each house of parliament within forty days of the making of the same, if parliament be then sitting, or if not, then within forty days of the commencement of the then next ensuing session; and if an address is presented to Her Majesty by either house of parliament within the next subsequent forty days on which the said house shall have sat, praying that any such rule may be annulled, Her Majesty may thereupon by order in council annul the same; and the rules so annulled shall thenceforth become void and of no effect, but without prejudice to the validity of any proceeding which may in the meantime have been taken under the same.
22. From and after the commencement of this act the several jurisdictions which by this act are transferred to and vested in the said high court of justice and the said court of appeal respectively shall cease to be exercised, except by the said high court of justice and the said court of appeal respectively, as provided by this act; * * *
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24. [Law and equity to be concurrently administered by both the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal.]
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31. For the more convenient dispatch of business in the said high court of justice (but not so as to prevent any judge from sitting whenever required in any divisional court, or for any judge of a different division from his own), there shall be in the said high court five divisions consisting of such number of judges respectively as herein-after mentioned. * * * The said five divisions shall be called respectively the chancery division, the queen’s bench division, the common pleas division, the exchequer division, and the probate, divorce, and admiralty division. * * *
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(1876, August 11. 39 & 40 Victoria, c. 59.)
BE it 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, as follows:
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as “The Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876.”
2. This Act shall, except when it is otherwise expressly provided, come into operation on the first day of November, 1876, which day is hereinafter referred to as the commencement of this Act.
3. Subject as in this Act mentioned, an appeal shall lie to the House of Lords from any order or judgment of any of the courts following; that is to say,
(1) of Her Majesty’s Court of Appeal in England; and
(2) of any Court in Scotland from which error or an appeal at or immediately before the commencement of this Act lay to the House of Lords by common law or by statute; and
(3) of any Court in Ireland from which error or an appeal at or immediately before the commencement of this Act lay to the House of Lords by common law or by statute.
4. Every appeal shall be brought by way of petition to the House of Lords, praying that the matter of the order or judgment appealed against may be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, in order that the said Court may determine what of right, and according to the law and custom of this realm, ought to be done in the subject-matter of such appeal.
5. An appeal shall not be heard and determined by the House of Lords unless there are present at such hearing and determination not less than three of the following persons, in this Act designated Lords of Appeal; that is to say
(1) The Lord Chancellor of Great Britain for the time being; and
(2) The Lords of Appeal in Ordinary to be appointed as in this Act mentioned; and
(3) Such Peers of Parliament as are for the time being holding or have held any of the offices in this Act described as high judicial offices.
For the purpose of aiding the House of Lords in the hearing and determination of appeals, Her Majesty may, at any time after the passing of this Act, by letters patent appoint two qualified persons to be Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, but such appointment shall not take effect until the commencement of this Act.
A person shall not be qualified to be appointed by Her Majesty a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary unless he has been at or before the time of his appointment the holder for a period of not less than two years of some one or more of the offices in this Act described as high judicial offices. or has been at or before such time as aforesaid, for not less than fifteen years, a practising barrister in England or Ireland, or a practising advocate in Scotland.
Every Lord of Appeal in Ordinary shall hold his office during good behaviour, and shall continue to hold the same notwithstanding the demise of the Crown, but he may be removed from such office on the address of both Houses of Parliament.
There shall be paid to every Lord of Appeal in Ordinary a salary of six thousand pounds a year.
Every Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, unless he is otherwise entitled to sit as a member of the House of Lords, shall by virtue and according to the date of his appointment be entitled during his life to rank as a Baron by such style as Her Majesty may be pleased to appoint, and shall during the time that he continues in his office as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and no longer, be entitled to a writ of summons to attend, and to sit and vote in the House of Lords; his dignity as a Lord of Parliament shall not descend to his heirs.
On any Lord of Appeal in Ordinary vacating his office, by death, resignation, or otherwise, Her Majesty may fill up the vacancy by the appointment of another qualified person.
A Lord of Appeal in Ordinary shall, if a Privy Councillor, be a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and, subject to the due performance by a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary of his duties as to the hearing and determining of appeals in the House of Lords, it shall be his duty, being a Privy Councillor, to sit and act as a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
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(1877, April 24. 40 Victoria, c. 9.)
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4. AND whereas it is expedient that a uniform style should be provided for the ordinary judges of the court of appeal and for the judges of the high court of justice (other than the presidents of divisions): be it enacted, that the ordinary judges of the court of appeal shall be styled Lords Justices of Appeal, and the judges of the high court of justice (other than the presidents of divisions) shall be styled Justices of the High Court.
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(1881, August 27. 44 & 45 Victoria, c. 68.)
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2. FROM and after the passing of this act the present and every future Master of the Rolls shall cease to be a judge of Her Majesty’s high court of justice, but shall continue by virtue of his office to be a judge of Her Majesty’s court of appeal.
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25. Where by any statute any power is given to or any act is required or authorised to be done by the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, or either of them, either solely or jointly with the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench or the Lord Chief Justice of England, and either with or without the Lord Chancellor or any judge, officer, or person, such power may henceforth be exercised and such act done by the Lord Chief Justice of England; and where by any statute the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, or either of them, is required for the exercise of any power, or the performance of any act, it shall be sufficient henceforth that the Lord Chief Justice of England shall concur therein.
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(1884, December 6. 48 Victoria, c. 3.)
BE it 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, as follows:
PRELIMINARY
1. This act my be cited as the Representation of the People Act, 1884.
EXTENSION OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND LODGER FRANCHISE
2. A uniform household franchise and a uniform lodger franchise at elections shall be established in all counties and boroughs throughout the united kingdom, and every man possessed of a household qualification or a lodger qualification shall, if the qualifying premises be situate in a county in England or Scotland, be entitled to be registered as a voter, and when registered to vote at an election for such county, and if the qualifying premises be situate in a county or borough in Ireland, be entitled to be registered as a voter, and when registered to vote at an election for such county or borough.
3. Where a man himself inhabits any dwelling-house by virtue of any office, service, or employment, and the dwelling-house is not inhabited by any person under whom such man serves in such office, service, or employment, he shall be deemed for the purposes of this act and of the representation of the people acts to be an inhabitant occupier of such dwelling-house as a tenant.
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(1885, June 25. 48 & 49 Victoria, c. 23.)
BE it 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 and by the authority of the same, as follows:
PRELIMINARY
1. This act may be cited as ”The Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885.”
PART I
REDISTRIBUTION
Boroughs
2. From and after the end of this present parliament the parliamentary boroughs named in the first part of the First Schedule [103 in all] shall cease as boroughs to return any member.
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3. [Boroughs of Macclesfield and Sandwich disfranchised for corruption.]
4. From and after the end of this present parliament the City of London shall return two members, and no more, and each of the parliamentary boroughs named in the Second Schedule [39 in all] shall return one member, and no more.
5. [Parliamentary boroughs named in Third Schedule [19 in all] given additional members.]
6. [Towns and places named in the Fourth Schedule [33 in all] made parliamentary boroughs.]
7. [Alterations of boundaries of boroughs.]
8. [Division of boroughs for electoral purposes.]
Counties
9. [Division of counties for electoral purposes into divisions returning one member each - the counties of England and Wales into 244 divisions, the counties of Scotland into 46 divisions, and the counties of Ireland into 85 divisions.]
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