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PAYMASTER GENERAL ACT 1835

PAYMASTER GENERAL ACT 1835 - LONG TITLE

An Act for consolidating the Offices of Paymaster General, Paymaster
and Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital, Treasurer of the Navy, and
Treasurer of the Ordnance.{1}
[25th August 1835]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1890[

PAYMASTER GENERAL ACT 1835 - SECT 1
His Majesty may abolish certain offices and constitute one office in
place thereof.

1.] It shall be lawful for His Majesty, by warrant under the royal
sign manual, countersigned by the Treasury, to abolish the said
offices of receiver and paymaster general of His Majesty's guards,
garrisons, and land forces, of paymaster and treasurer of all moneys
for the maintenance or relief of the disabled and superannuated
non-commissioned officers and soldiers entertained in His Majesty's
royal hospital near Chelsea, of treasurer of His Majesty's royal
navy, and of treasurer of His Majesty's ordnance; and in place of
the said several offices to constitute and appoint one office for
the discharge of the duties now executed in the several offices so
authorized to be abolished.

S.2 rep. by SLR 1874

PAYMASTER GENERAL ACT 1835 - SECT 3
Style and establishment of the office of paymaster general.

3. The office to be created to execute the several duties now
discharged in the said offices so to be abolished shall be styled
"The Office of His Majesty's Paymaster General"; and the
establishment thereof shall consist of a paymaster general, with such
number of officers, clerks, and assistants, and with such salaries
as shall be fixed and regulated from time to time by the Treasury.

PAYMASTER GENERAL ACT 1835 - SECT 4
Appointment to office.

4. The said office of paymaster general shall be granted by warrant
under the royal sign manual, countersigned by the Treasury, and such
grant when so made shall be and continue in force during His
Majesty's pleasure, in the same manner as the offices by this Act
authorized to be abolished are granted and held.

S.5 rep. by 1957 c.20 s.14(1) sch.4 Pt.I. S.6 rep. by SLR 1874

PAYMASTER GENERAL ACT 1835 - SECT 7
Duties, &c. transferred to new office.

7. From and after the abolition of the said offices, and so soon
as the appointment of a paymaster general shall have been made
under the authority of this Act by His Majesty, all the interest,
titles, powers, authorities, privileges, and duties now exercised by
or vested, either by law or usage, in any of the said offices so
abolished, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be
transferred to, exercised by, and vested in the said paymaster
general in as full and ample a manner to all intents and purposes
as they were exercised by or vested in the persons holding the
said offices so abolished, except only so far as any of such
interests, titles, powers, authorities, privileges, and duties are or
shall be by this Act controlled, diminished, or varied.

Ss.8, 9 rep. by SLR 1874. Ss.10, 11 rep. by SLR 1890; SL(R) 1977.
S.12 rep. by SLR 1874