OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND:

PASSED IN THE

FORTY-NINTH AND FIFTIETH YEARS

OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY

QUEEN VICTORIA

At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the 12th Day of

January, Anno Domini 1886, in the Forty-ninth Year of the Reign of
our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United

Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith:
Being the FIRST SESSION of the TWENTY-THIRD PARLIA-

MENT of the United Kingdom of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY EYRE AND SPOTTIS WOODE,

PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
PUBLISHED BY F. E. STREETEN, PROPRIETOR OF THE LAW JOURNAL REPORTS,

AT No. 5, QUALITY COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

MDCCCLXXXVI.

An Act to make temporary provision for and Commons, in this present Parliament the conduct of the Business of the assembled, and by the authority of the same,

as follows, that is to say: Office of Land Registry. (5th March 1886.) 1. The Lord Chancellor may make regula

tions for the conduct of the Office of Land WHEREAS by the Land Transfer Act, 1875, Registry during vacancy in the office of regisno provision is made for the conduct of the trar, and for distributing the duties amongst business of the Office of Land Registry during the respective officers, and for assigning to the any vacancy in the office of registrar :

assistant registrar all or any of the functions And whereas a vacancy in the said office has and authorities by the Land Transfer Act, taken place, and it is expedient that such 1875, or any other Act, assigned to or conferred vacancy should not immediately be filled, but on the registrar, and all acts done by the assisthat temporary provision for the conduct of the tant registrar under any such regulations shall business of the Office of Land Registry during have the same effect in all respects as if they such vacancy sbould be made :

had been done by the registrar. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and 2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the Land Registry Act, 1886.

CHAP. 2.

Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1886.

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Section 11 of 41 X 42 Vict. c. 39. as to close time not to apply to eels.
2. Short title.

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