An Act for making good the Deficiencies of several Funds therein mentioned and for enlargeing the Capital Stock of the Bank of England and for raising the Publick Creditt.[2]
Citation
8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 20
Other legislation
Repealed by
Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
The Bank of England Act 1696 (8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 20) was an Act of the Parliament of England. It was one of the Bank of England Acts 1694 to 1892.[3]
Provisoes or conditions contained in this Act, and in the Bank of England Act 1694 (5 W & M c 20), for determining a fund of £100,000 per annum, and the corporation of the governor and company of the Bank of England, upon the respective notices and payments in both Acts mentioned, were repealed and made void by section 8 of the Bank of England Act 1708 (7 Ann c 30) (which is section 5[4] of chapter 7 in Ruffhead's Edition).
Sections 1 to 25, 29, 38 to 44, 50, 51, 53 to 61, 63 to 68, 70 and 71 were repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867.
The whole Act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Part IV of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973.
^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.
^These words are printed against this Act in the second column of Schedule 1 to the Short Titles Act 1896, which is headed "Title".
^The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2
^It is also section 5 in: Danby Pickering. The Statutes at Large. Cambridge. 1764. Volume 11. Page 451.
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