President of the Board of Trade Act 1932
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1932 c. 21 |
| Year | 1932 |
President of the Board of Trade Act, 1932
(22 & 23 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 21.
An Act to remove the incapacity of the President of the Board of Trade for being elected and sitting and voting as a member of the Commons House of Parliament, and to indemnify certain holders of that office from any penal consequence which they may have incurred by sitting or voting as members of the said House at any time while they were not capable of so doing as being holders of that office.
[25th April 1932]
Whereas it is apprehended that since the coming into operation of the Board of Trade Act, 1909, persons holding the Office of President of the Board of Trade have not been capable of being elected, or of sitting or voting, as members of the Commons House of Parliament:
And whereas it is expedient to provide that the holders of the Office of President of the Board of Trade shall not be subject to that incapacity, and that the persons who have held the said office between the date on which the said Act came into operation and the passing of this Act shall be indemnified from all penal consequences which they have incurred by sitting and voting as members of the Commons House of Parliament:
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, as follows:—
1 Removal of disqualification of President of Board of Trade for sitting in Parliament.
1. The Office of President of the Board of Trade shall not render the holder thereof incapable of being elected, or of sitting and voting, as a member of the Commons House of Parliament.
2 Indemnity of former Presidents.
2. This Act shall be deemed to have had effect as from the coming into operation of the Board of Trade Act, 1909, and accordingly all persons who have at any time since that date held the Office of President of the Board of Trade shall be, and each and every of them is, hereby freed, discharged and indemnified from all penalties, incapacities and disabilities whatsoever incurred by them, or any or either of them, by reason of their sitting or voting as members of the Commons House of Parliament while holding the Office of President of...
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