Regimental Accounts Act 1808
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1808 c. 128 |
(48 Geo. 3) C A P. CXXVIII.
[30th June 1808]
'WHEREAS an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled,An Actto repeal an Act made in the Twenty-third Year of His present Majesty, for the better Regulation of the Office of Paymaster General of His Majesty's Forces, and the more regular Payment of the Army, and for the more effectually regulating the said Office; and certain Provisions are contained in the said Act, as to Periods within which certain Accounts of Agents of Regiments in His Majesty's Forces transmitted to the Secretary at War, are to be examined and settled: And whereas it has been found that the said Provision cannot be strictly complied with: And whereas the Commissioners appointed to enquire and examine into the publick Expenditure, and the Conduct of publick Business in certain Military Department, are proceeding in an Inquiry in relation to the War Office, and the Accounts thereof, and as to Regimental Accounts, and Expenditures; and it is therefore expedient that the said Provisions of the said recited Act should be repealed, and that His Majesty should be empowered to order and direct all such Accounts to be kept and made up, and transmitted and examined and settled by such Person or Persons in such Manner, at such Times, and at such Periods as shall be deemed expedient, so that any of the Regulations which may be suggested by such Commissioners, or which it may be otherwise thought proper to adopt, may be carried into Execution, with the least possible Delay, for the Publick Service;' 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 so much of the said recited Act, as requires the Annual Accounts of every Regiment, Troop, and Company to be examined and settled by the Secretary at War, or by such other Person or Persons, as shall be duly authorized by His Majesty for that Purpose, within Three Months after the Receipt thereof; and...
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