Consolidated Fund Act, 1816

Commissioners of the Treasury may sit in Parliament.

16. The appointment or any person or persons to be commissioner or commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall not be deemed or taken to be an appointment or appointments to a new office or new offices, or place or places of profit under the crown; and any person so to be appointed one of the commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall not be thereby disabled from sitting or voting as a member of the House of Commons, nor shall he be thereby rendered incapable of being elected a member of the House of Commons, any thing in any Act or Acts to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

[S. 17 rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91. (S.L.R.)]