The Naval and Victualling Stores Act 1862
WHEREAS the existing Enactments for the Protection of Her Majesty's Naval and Victualling Stores are numerous and complicated, and Difficulties have arisen in their Application, and it is consequently expedient to reduce into One Act and simplify and amend them: 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: