Bankrupts Act 1772
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Citation | 1772 c. 47 |
Year | 1772 |
(12 Geo. 3) C A P. XLVII.
'WHEREAS the Law hereafter mentioned hath, by Experience, been found useful and beneficial, and is near expiring; may it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted;' and be it enacted by the King'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, Thatan Act made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Second, (intituled, An Act to prevent the Committing of Frauds by Bankrupts ), which was to continue in Force from the Twenty-fourth Day of June , One thousand seven hundred and thirty-two, for the Space of Three Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament; and which, by several subsequent Acts, made in the Ninth and Sixteenth Years of His said Majesty's Reign, was further continued until the Twenty-ninth Day ofSeptember , One thousand seven hundred and fifty; and by an Act made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, was amended and further continued until the FirstDay ofSeptember , One thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven; and which by Two subsequent Acts, made in the Thirty-first Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, and the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, was further continued until the Twenty-ninth Day of September , One thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament; shall be, and the same is hereby further continued, from the Expiration thereof, until the Twenty-ninth Day of September , One thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament.
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