Income Tax Act 1805

Appointment of Commissioners for Offices in Houses of Parliament, Counties Palatine, inferior Courts, and under Ecclesiastical Bodies.

CLXII. And be it further enacted, That the Speaker and the Principal Clerk of either House of Parliament, the Principal or other Officers in the several Counties Palatine and the Duchy of Cornwall, or in any Ecclestastical Court, or in any inferior Court of Justice, whether of Law or Equity, or Criminal or Justiciary, or under any Ecclesiastical Body or Corporation, whether Aggregate or Sole, throughout Great Britain, shall appoint Commissioners from and amongst the Persons executing Offices in either House of Parliament, or in their respective Departments of Office, and the Persons so appointed, or any Three or more of them, not in any case exceeding Seven, shall be Commissioners for executing this Act and the Powers therein contained, in relation to the Places, Offices, and Employments of Profit in each House of Parliament, and in each such Department respectively, which Appointments shall be made, and the Names of the Commissioners shall be transmitted to the Office for taxes or to Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland respectively, within or to the Barons of the Cout of Exchequer in Scotland respectively, within the Time herein limited: Provided always, that where no such Appointment shall be made of such last mentioned Commissioners before the Expiration of the Time limited by this Act, the Commissioners for executing this Act, in relation to the Duties on Lands and Tenements, shall, in their several Districts, on due Notice of such Default in the Manner herein directed, also execute this Act in relation to the Duties on such Offices or Employments of Profit exercised within the same Districts respectively.