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SUNDAY OBSERVANCE ACT 1833

SUNDAY OBSERVANCE ACT 1833 - LONG TITLE

An Act to enable the Election of Officers of Corporations and other
Public Companies now required to be held on the Lord's Day to be
held on the Saturday next preceding, or on the Monday next
ensuing.{1}
[24th July 1833]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1890 (No. 2)[

SUNDAY OBSERVANCE ACT 1833 - SECT 1
Elections of officers of corporations and other public companies and
other meetings now required to be held on a Sunday shall be held
on the Saturday preceding or the Monday following.

1.] Every meeting or adjourned meeting of any vestry or corporation,
whether ecclesiastical or civil, or of any public company, for the
nomination, election, appointment, swearing in, or admission of any
officer or officers, or for the transaction of any other secular
affair of such vestry, corporation, or company, and every other
meeting of a public and secular nature, which, according to any Act
of Parliament, or according to any charter, grant, constitution,
deed, testament, law, prescription, or usage whatsoever, is or shall
be required to be held on any Lord's day, or on any day which
shall happen to be on a Lord's day, shall be held on the Saturday
next preceding or on the Monday next ensuing, at the like hour,
with like form and effect, as if the same had been held on such
Lord's day; and every matter transacted at any such meeting or
adjourned meeting held upon any Lord's day shall be absolutely void
and of none effect, to all intents and purposes whatsoever: Provided
always, that when no such nomination, election, appointment, swearing
in, or admission shall have taken place on such Saturday, every
person whose term of office would, according to any such Act,
charter, grant, constitution, deed, testament, law, prescription, or
usage, have expired on any such Lord's day, shall continue in
office, and exercise and enjoy all the powers and privileges annexed
or relating to such office, until and on such Monday next ensuing,
in the same manner as if such Monday had been the customary day
of nomination, election, appointment, swearing in, or admission.

S.2 rep. by SLR 1890 (No. 2)