1823: 4 George 4 c.35: An Act to enable Trustees or Commissioners under Acts of Parliament to meet and carry such Acts into Execution, although they may not have met according to the Directions of such Acts.

[27th June 1823.]

‘WHEREAS it has happened that the Trustees or Commissioners appointed to carry into Execution any Act or Acts of Parliament have not been able to meet on the Day appointed by such Act or Acts for carrying the same into Execution, by reason that the Day appointed for such Meeting has been antecedent to the passing of such Act or Acts, whereby the Intent of such Act or Acts hath been or may be frustrated:’ For Remedy whereof, be it enacted by the King’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,

[Where Trustees or Commissioners cannot meet on the Day appointed as herein mentioned for their First Meeting, any Three may meet on the Fourteenth Day after the passing of such Act.]

That in all Cases where the Trustees or Commissioners appointed by any Act or Acts of Parliament have not been or shall not be able to meet on the Day appointed for their First Meeting by any such Act or Acts, by reason that the Day appointed for such Meeting has been or shall be antecedent to the passing of such Act or Acts, it shall and may be lawful for Three or more of the said Trustees or Commissioners appointed to execute such Actor Acts to meet at the Place appointed by such Act or Acts for the First Meeting of such Trustees or Commissioners, on the Fourteenth Day after the passing of such Act or Acts, or of this Act; and every such Meeting shall be as good, valid and effectual as if such Trustees or Commissioners had met in pursuance of the Act or Acts of Parliament which they are appointed to carry into Execution.

Source: Butterworths, Statutes of the United Kingdom, 1823.