An Act to revive and continue an Act of the First and Second Years of His late Majesty, to enable His Majesty to make Leases, Copies, and Grants of Offices, Lands, and Hereditaments Parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same ; and to make Provision for rendering to Parliament annual Accounts of the Receipts and Disbursement of the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster.
[14th August 1838]
WHEREAS an [1 & 2 W. 4. c. 5.] Act passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to enable His Majesty to make Leases, Copies, and Grants of Offices, Lands, and Hereditaments Parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same: And whereas it is expedient that Her most Excellent Majesty should, during such Time as the said Duchy of Cornwall shall remain vested in Her Majesty, have the like Powers and Authorities in relation to the Duchy of" Cornwall as were by the said Act given to and vested in His late Majesty :
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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 the said Act shall be and the same is hereby revived, and that the same shall be and continue in full Force and Effect during such Time as the Duchy of Cornwall shall remain vested in Her Majesty, and that all Powers and Authorities by the said Act given to or vested in His late Majesty, and all Powers thereby authorized to be vested in and deputed to such Number of the regular Officers for the Time being of the said Duchy as therein specified, shall vest in and may be used and exercised by Her Majesty, and are hereby authorized to be vested in such regular Officers, subject nevertheless to and under the same Limitations and Restrictions as to Leases and Grants, and the same Conditions to be therein contained, as are required with respect thereto respectively in the said recited Act ;
and that all Acts, Matters, and Things done by Her Majesty by virtue of such Power or Authority, and all Acts done by such regular Officers by virtue of the Power so authorized to be vested in or deputed to them, shall have full Force and Effect to all Intents and Purposes as if the Name of Her Majesty were inserted in the said recited Act and the same was herein repeated.
And be it enacted, That Accounts of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster shall be annually submitted by the proper Officers of the said Duchies to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in such Form and accompanied by such Explanations as the said Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall from Time to Time require and direct; and that the annual Account of Receipts and Disbursements shall be presented to both Houses of Parliament by the said Lords Commissioners of the Treasury within One Calendar Month after the First Meeting of Parliament subsequent to the First Day of January in every Year.