Government Annuities Act 1873
WHEREAS under divers Acts the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt are authorised to grant annuities, and it is expedient to make further provision with respect to the payment of such annuities: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: