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Long title | An Act for makeing more effectuall Her Majesties Gracious Intencions for the Augmentacion of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy by enabling Her Majesty to grant in Perpetuity the Revenues of the First Fruits and Tenths and also for enabling any other Persons to make Grants for the same Purpose. [b] |
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Territorial extent | England and Wales |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 3 April 1704 |
Commencement | 9 November 1703 [e] |
Repealed | 29 July 1960 |
Other legislation | |
Amended by | |
Repealed by | Charities Act 1960 |
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Status: Repealed | |
Text of statute as originally enacted |
The Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1703 [a] (2 & 3 Ann. c 20) [c] was an act of the Parliament of England, granting "in Perpetuity the Revenues of the First Fruits and Tenths" for the support of the poor clergy of England. [1]
Sections 2, 3 and 7 of the act were repealed by section 6 of, and the second schedule to, the First Fruits and Tenths Measure 1926 (No. 5).
The words "or women covert without their husbands" in section 6 of the act were repealed by section 5(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 30).
In this section, the words from "inrolled in such manner" to "bargaines and sales" and the word "inrolled" where thereafter occurring were repealed by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 62).
Section 1 of the act was repealed by section 39(1) of, and schedule 5 to, the Charities Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 58).
The whole act, so far as not otherwise repealed, was repealed by section 48(2) of, and part II of schedule 7 to, the Charities Act 1960.