An Act to remove the incapacity of the President of the Board of Trade for being elected and sitting and voting as a member of the Commons House of Parliament, and to indemnify certain holders of that office from any penal consequence which they may have incurred by sitting or voting as members of the said House at any time while they were not capable of so doing as being holders of that office.
WHEREAS it is apprehended that since the coming into operation of the Board of Trade Act, 1909, persons holding the Office of President of the Board of Trade have not been capable of being elected, or of sitting or voting, as members of the Commons House of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient to provide that the holders of the Office of President of the Board of Trade shall not be subject to that incapacity, and that the persons who have held the said office between the date on which the ...