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Yeomanry (Training) Act 1816

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 3 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1816 c. 39
Anno Regni GEORGII III. Britanniarum Regis,Quinquagesimo Sexto. An Act to reduce the Number of Days of Muster or Exercise of Yeomanry and Volunteer Cavalry.

(56 Geo. 3) C A P. XXXIX.

[21st May 1816]

'WHEREAS it is expedient that the Number of Days' Attendance at Muster or Exercise, necessary to entitle Persons serving in any Corps of Yeomanry or Volunteer Cavalry to be returned or certified as effective Members of such Corps, should be reduced;' 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 Parliamentassembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act the Number of Days' Attendance at Muster or Exercise of Corps of Yeomanry or Volunteer Cavalry, to entitle any Person serving in such Corps to be returned or certified as an effective Member thereof, shall be Six in each Year, any thing in an Act passed in the Forty fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, relating to Volunteer Corps, to the contrary notwithstanding; and the said Act shall be construed, as to all Returns and Certificates of Commanding Officers of such Corps, or others, as if the Number of Days' Attendance at Muster or Exercise, specified in the said Act as necessary to entitle Persons serving in Corpsof Yeomanry or Volunteer Cavalry to be returned or certified as effective, had been Six instead of Twelve in each Year; and such Number of Six Days shall in like manner be divided into Two Days or Three equal Parts in each Four Months, instead of Four Days as in the said Act provided, with such Provisions as to making good any Number of Days at different Periods, as are contained in the said Act in relation to the Days of Muster or Exercise...

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