Treasury Instruments (Signature) Act, 1849

TREASURY INSTRUMENTS (SIGNATURE) ACT 1849

CHAPTER LXXXIX.

An Act to reduce the Number of Signatures required to Instruments issued by the Lords of the Treasury.[1] [1st August 1849.]

Whereas it is expedient to reduce the number of signatures required to warrants and other instruments issued by the Commissioners of her Majesty’s Treasury:

Instruments, &c, required to be signed by the Commissioners of the Treasury, may be signed by any two or more.

[1.] Where any warrant, appointment, authority, approval, instrument, or act whatsoever is by any Act of Parliament or otherwise required to by issued, made, signified, or done by or under the hands of the said commissioners, or by or under the hands of any three or more of them, every such warrant, appointment, authority, approval, instrument, or act may be issued, made, signified, or done by or under the hands of any two or more of the said commisssioners, and when so issued, made, signified, or done as aforesaid shall be binding, and have the same effect, to all intents and purposes, as if issued, made, signified, or done by or under the hands of the said commissioners or by or under the hands of any three or more of them, as the case may require.

[1 Short title, “The Treasury Instruments (Signature Act, 1849.”) See 55 & 56 Vict. c. 10.]