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ART UNIONS ACT 1846

ART UNIONS ACT 1846 - LONG TITLE

An Act for legalizing Art Unions.{1}
[13th August 1846]
WHEREAS certain voluntary associations have been and may hereafter be
formed in various parts of the United Kingdom, under the name of
art unions, for the purchase of paintings, drawings, or other works
of art, to be afterwards allotted and distributed, by chance or
otherwise, among the several members, subscribers, or contributors,
forming part of such associations, or for raising sums of money by
subscription or contribution, to be allotted and distributed, by
chance or otherwise, as prizes, amongst the members, subscribers, or
contributors, forming part of such associations, on the condition
nevertheless that such sums of money so allotted and distributed be
expended solely and entirely in the purchase of paintings, drawings,
or other works of art: And whereas such allotment and distribution
of paintings, drawings, or other works of art, or of sums of money
for their purchase, and the proceedings taken to carry the same
into effect, may be deemed and taken to come within the provisions
of the several Acts of Parliament passed for the prevention of
lotteries, little goes, and unlawful games, whereby the members,
subscribers, or contributors of such associations as aforesaid, or
persons acting under their authority or on their behalf, may be
liable or subjected to certain pains and penalties imposed by law
on persons concerned in lotteries, little goes, and unlawful games:
And Whereas it is expedient that all members of and subscribers and
contributors to such voluntary associations as aforesaid, and all
persons acting under their authority or on their behalf, so long
only as their proceedings are carried on in good faith for the
encouragement of the fine arts, shall be discharged and protected
from any pains and penalties to which they may have rendered
themselves liable, or may hereafter render themselves liable, by
reason of any such their proceedings as aforesaid:[

ART UNIONS ACT 1846 - SECT 1
Voluntary associations constituted for the distribution of works of
art by lot deemed legal, provided a royal charter shall have been
first obtained, or deed of settlement approved by privy council,
&c..

1.] All such voluntary associations as aforesaid, now constituted, or
which may hereafter be constituted according to the provisions
herein-after contained, shall be deemed to be lawful associations;
and the members of and subscribers and contributors to all such
lawful associations, and all persons acting under their authority or
on their behalf for the purposes aforesaid, shall be freed and
discharged from all pains and penalties, suits, prosecutions, and
liabilities, to which by law they would be liable but for the
passing of this Act, as being concerned in illegal lotteries, little
goes, or unlawful games, by reason of any thing done or which may
be done by them or any of them in furtherance of the allotment or
distribution, by scheme or otherwise, of paintings, drawings, or
other works of art, or of the allotment or distribution of sums of
money as prizes to be expended for their purchase: Provided always,
that a royal charter or charters shall have been first obtained for
the incorporation of any such association, or provided that the deed
of partnership, or other instrument or instruments constituting such
association, and the rules and regulations relating to the
proceedings of such association for such purposes as aforesaid, shall
have first been submitted to the consideration and be approved of
by a committee of Her Majesty's most honourable privy council, and
a copy thereof deposited with such committee; and that it shall be
expressed in every such charter, deed, or instrument, that it shall
be lawful for any committee of Her Majesty's privy council to whom
the consideration of art unions shall be referred by Her Majesty,
whenever it shall appear to them that any such association is
perverted from the purposes of this Act, to certify the fact to
Her Majesty, and thereupon it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to
revoke or annul the charter, deed, or instrument, under which the
association so offending shall have been constituted; and nothing in
this Act contained shall be deemed to apply to any association
whose charter, deed of partnership, or other instrument constituting
the same shall have been so revoked or annulled.

Ss.2, 3 rep. by SLR 1875