Corrupt Practices Commission Expenses Act 1869
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1869 c. 21 |
| Year | 1869 |
Corrupt Practices Commission Expenses Act, 1869
(32 & 33 Vict.) CHAP. 21.
An Act to amend the law relating to the Payment of the Expenses of Commissioners of Inquiry into Corrupt Practices at Elections of members to serve in Parliament.
[24th June 1869]
Whereas by the Act of the session of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-seven, entitled ‘ An Actto provide for more effectual inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the elections of members to serve in Parliament,’ power is given to Her Majesty, in the events therein mentioned, by warrant under Royal Sign Manual, to appoint commissioners, in this Act called Commissioners of Inquiry, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices in any election or elections of a member or members to serve in Parliament:
And whereas by the said Act it is provided that the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to make order for the payment of the necessary expenses of any inquiry under that Act:
And whereas by the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, it is provided that the expenses of such inquiry as aforesaid shall be defrayed as if they were expenses incurred in the registration of voters for the county or borough in respect of which commissioners of inquiry have been appointed:
And whereas it is expedient to make further provision with respect to the payment of the said expenses:
Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:
Preliminary.
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as TheCorrupt Practices Commission Expenses Act, 1869.
2 Power of Treasury to advance money for payment of expenses of commission.
2. When commissioners of inquiry have been appointed as aforesaid, in the case of any county, city, or borough, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may from time to time advance out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or out of the growing produce thereof, such monies as may be required for payment of the expenses of the inquiry to be made by such commissioners, and may pay the same accordingly, and such advances shall be repaid in manner herein-after mentioned upon a requisition of the Commissioners of the Treasury stating the amount of such advances, and such requisition shall be conclusive evidence of the amount therein stated, and of the payment thereof by the Commissioners of the Treasury.
Payment of expenses in England.
3 Repayment of advances made by the Treasury.
3. The following enactments shall be made with respect to the repayment to the Commissioners of the Treasury, of any advance made by them for payment of the expenses of any inquiry made by commissioners of inquiry in England:
(1) 1. The Commissioners of the Treasury shall forward their requisition to the local officer of the county, city, or borough,...
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