Land Tax Redemption Act 1801
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1801 c. 72 |
| Year | 1801 |
(41 Geo. 3) C A P. LXXII.
[27th June 1801]
'WHEREAS it is expedient, that the Period within which all Bodies Corporate and Politick, Companies, and Persons mentioned in several Acts passed in the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth Years of his present Majesty's Reign, were allowed the Benefit of Preference in contracting for the Redemption of any Land Tax therein mentioned, and which was, by an Act passed in the thirty-ninth and fortieth Years of his present Majesty's Reign, extended until the twenty-fifth Day ofMarch one thousand eight hundred and one, should be revived, continued, and further extended;' 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, That all Bodies Corporate or Politick, Companies, and Persons, in the said Actsmentioned, who by the same Acts, or any of them, were empowered to contract for the Redemption of the Land Tax charged on any Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, of which they were or should be in Possession, or to the Rents and Profits whereof they were or should be beneficially entitled, or in which they should have any Estate or Interest in Remainder, Reversion, or Expectancy, or being Substitute Heirs of Entail, should be entitled, in their Order, to succeed to in Preference to any other Bodies, Corporations, Companies, or other Persons whatsoever, not having any Estate or Interest therein; and the respective Committees, Curators, Tutors, Guardians, or Trustees of such Persons, on their Behalf respectively are hereby declared to have, and shall continue to have and be entitled to such and the like Preference in the Redemption of such Land Tax, over such other Bodies, Corporations, Companies, or Persons, from and after the twenty-fifth Day ofMarch one thousand eight hundred and one, until and upon the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand eight hundred and two.
II. 'And whereas, by an Act passed in the thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, AnAct for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight , it is enacted, that every Receiver General in England, Wales...
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