Militia Act 1803

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1803 c. 19
Year1803
Anno Regni GEORGII III. Britanniarum Regis,Quadragesimo tertio. An Act to authorize the training and exercising the Militia ofGreat Britain for twenty-eight Days.

(43 Geo. 3) C A P. XIX.

[24th March 1803]

'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, England,and for augmenting the Militia; and by another Act passed in the the same Session, intituled, An Act to raise and establish a Militia Force in Scotland, it is enacted, that the Militia to be raised under the said respective Acts should be called out once in every Year for the Purpose of being trained and exercised, for the Space of twenty-one Days: And whereas it will tend to the better training of the said Militia if the Period of such Exercise was extended;' be it therefore 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 the said Militiashall, when so called out as aforesaid, be trained and exercised for the Space of twenty-eight Days; and all the Clauses, Powers, Provisions, Penalties, Forfeitures, Punishments, Matters, and Things in the said Acts respectively contained, with Relation to the calling out, training, and exercising...

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