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Elections (Fraudulent Conveyances) Act 1711

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Elections (Fraudulent Conveyances) Act 1711[1]
Long titleAn Act for the more effectual preventing fraudulent Conveyances in order to multiply Votes for electing Knights of Shires to serve in Parliament.[2]
Citation10 Ann. c. 31 (Ruffhead c. 23)
Dates
Royal assent22 May 1712
Other legislation
Amended byStatute Law Revision Act 1867
Repealed byRepresentation of the People Act 1918
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Elections (Fraudulent Conveyances) Act 1711 (10 Ann. c. 31), sometimes called the Elections (Fraudulent Conveyance) Act 1711,[3] was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.

This Act is chapter 23 in Ruffhead's Edition.[4]

The Elections (Fraudulent Conveyances) Act 1711, except for section 1, was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867.

The whole Act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 47(1) of, and Schedule 8 to, the Representation of the People Act 1918.

References

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  1. ^ The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. ^ These words are printed against this Act in the second column of Schedule 1 to the Short Titles Act 1896, which is headed "Title".
  3. ^ Current Law Statutes 1996, vol 4, p 63
  4. ^ Council of Law Reporting. The Law Reports. The Public General Statutes, with a list of the local and private Acts, passed in the thirtieth and thirty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. London. 1867. Page 663. Note 3.