Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act for establishing a General Post Office for all Her Majesties Dominions, and for settling a weekly Sum out of the Revenues thereof for the Service of the War and other Her Majesties Occasions.[b] |
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| Citation | |
| Territorial extent | Great Britain |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 16 May 1711 |
| Commencement | 1 June 1711[e] |
| Repealed | 1 May 1909 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amends | Post Office Act 1660 |
| Repeals/revokes | Post Office Act 1695 |
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| Repealed by | |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710[a] (9 Ann. c. 11)[c] was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which established post offices in the colonies[1] and allotted its weekly revenues for the ongoing war and other uses.
The act repealed the Post Office Act 1695 (c. 31 (S)), and united the post offices of England and Scotland under two Postmasters General of Great Britain.[2]: 347
The whole act, "except so far as relates to the Payment and Appropriation of the weekly Sum of Seven hundred Pounds thereby directed to be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer, and as relates to Her Majesty's Hereditary Revenue, and except all Annuities and other Payments and Incumbrances to which the Revenue of the Post Office is thereby made liable, and except so far as relates to the Interference with or Participation in Elections of Members of Parliament by Officers of the Post Office", was repealed by section 1 of, and schedule (A.) to, the Post Office (Repeal of Laws) Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 32).[3]
The whole act, except the last two sections, was repealed for England and Wales by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 116), which came into force on 21 August 1871.[4]
Section 45 (section 91 in Ruffhead's Edition).[5] was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Revenue Officers' Disabilities Removal Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 22).]
So much of the act as was unrepealed was repealed by section 92 of, and schedule 2 to, the Post Office Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 48), which came into force on 1 May 1909.[6]
