The Defence of the Realm Act 1803 (43 Geo. 3 c. 55) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act was bought before the House of Commons on 18 May 1803 by Charles Philip Yorke, then Secretary at War in the Addington ministry.The Parliamentary Register or History of the Proceedings and Debates of the Houses of Lords and Commons, vol. 3, p. 215. The act required all counties to a full report on all able-bodied men aged between fifteen and sixty, classifying those in the volunteer regiments, those willing to serve, to drive waggons or act as guides, as well as the details of waggons, boats, horses, cattle, food and forage.Clive Emsley, British Society and the French Wars, 1793-1815 (Macmillan, 1979), p. 101.
Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 63), which came into force on 6 August 1872.
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