The Defence Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 94) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments relating to the services of the Ordnance Department and the vesting and purchase of lands and hereditaments for those services and for the defence and security of the United Kingdom.
Provisions Repealed enactments Section 1 of the act repealed 4 enactments, listed in that section. +Enactments repealed by section 1CitationShort titleDescriptionExtent of repeal44 Geo. 3. c. 95Defence of the Realm Act 1804An Act to amend certain of the Provisions of an Act made in the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty, to enable His Majesty to provide for the Defence and Security of the Realm, which respect the Purchase of Lands and Hereditaments for the public Service.The whole act.1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 69Ordnance (Vesting of Estates) Act 1821An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied for the Ordnance Service in the principal Officers of the Ordnance, and for granting certain Powers to the said principal Officers.The whole act.3 Geo. 4. c. 108Ordnance (Barrack Service) Act 1822An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied for the Barrack Service in any Part of the United Kingdom in the principal Officers of His Majesty's Ordnance, and for granting certain Powers to the said principal Officers in relation thereto.The whole act.2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 25Ordnance (Estates) Act 1832An Act to extend and render more effectual Two Acts, of the First and Second and Third Years of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, respecting the Estates thereby vested in the principal Officers of the Ordnance, and to facilitate the public Business in the Ordnance Department.The whole act.
Subsequent developments The following provisions were repealed by section 1 of, and part III of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969, which came into force on 1 January 1970. Section 8. In section 10, the words " feoffees or ", the words from " tenants for life " to " curators or ", the words from " femes covert" to " idiots or", the word " surrender", the words " enfranchisements, surrenders " and the words from " and shall be a complete bar " onwards. In sections 12, 13 and 14 the word " surrender " where-ever occurring, and in section 14 the word " surrendered ". In section 15 the words from " or being femes covert" to " for that purpose ", and the word " discovert". In section 18 the words " feoffees or ", the words from " tenants for life " to " curators or ", the words from " femes covert" to " idiots or", the word " surrender " and the word " surrenders ". In section 25 the words " enfranchisement of any copyhold or ".
In sections 10 and 18 of the act, the words from " femes covert " to " 1960, or " were repealed for Scotland by section 1(1) of, and part IX of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973, which came into force on 18 July 1973.
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