The Government Annuities Act 1853
WHEREAS it is expedient that the existing Acts of Parliament relating to the Purchase of Government Annuities through the Medium of Savings Banks should be repealed, in order that the same may be consolidated and amended: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of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: