Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710

The Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710[1]

Long title An Act for establishing a General Post Office for all Her Majesties Dominions, and for settling a weekly Sum out of the Revenues thereof for the Service of the War and other Her Majesties Occasions.[2]
Citation 9 Ann c 11
Status: Repealed

The Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710 (9 Ann c 11) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which established post offices in their colonies[3] and allotted its weekly revenues for the on-going war and other uses.

The Act repealed the 1695 Act of William and united the Post Offices of England and Scotland under one Postmaster-General as the Postmaster General of Great Britain;[4]:347

The Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710, except the last two sections, was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871.

So much of the Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710 as was unrepealed was repealed by section 92 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Post Office Act 1908.

Section 45

This section is section 91 in Ruffhead's Edition.[5] This section was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, 37 & 38 Vict c 22.

This Act is chapter 10 in Ruffhead's Edition.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. ↑ These words are printed against this Act in the second column of Schedule 1 to the Short Titles Act 1896, which is headed "Title".
  3. ↑ Max Savelle, Empires to Nations: Expansion in America, 1713-1824, p.43 (1974)
  4. ↑ Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge: Vol. VIII. London: W. & R. Chambers, Ltd. 1901.
  5. ↑ Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. The Law Reports: The Public General Statutes passed in the Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1874. London. 1874. Page 163. Footnote 1.
  6. ↑ Footnote to this Act in the Schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1871

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