The Bank of England Act 1709 (8 Ann. c. 1) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. It was one of the Bank of England Acts 1694 to 1892.The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and schedule 2
Only the title of this act is printed in Ruffhead's Edition.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 656. Footnote 9.
The majority of the act related to the raising of one year's land tax. Sections 124 to 132 (the last eight sections of the act) dealt with the Bank of England.
Subsequent developments The whole act, except sections 131 and 132, were repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59), which came into force on 15 July 1867.
The whole act was repealed by section 3(4) of, and schedule 3 to, the Bank of England Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 27), which came into force on 1 March 1946.
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Halsbury's Statutes,