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An Act to amend the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.
[16th September 1887]
C1Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1M1 Notwithstanding anything in the eighth section of the said Act contained, every Lord of Appeal shall be empowered to take his seat and the oaths at any such sitting of the House of Lords during prorogation.
F1Recital omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)
C1
“The said Act” means Appellate Jurisdiction Act
C2
“any such sitting” means any sitting for hearing and determining appeals
M11876 c. 59.
F1S. 2 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XIX
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as formed under the provisions of the first section of the M1Judicial Committee Act 1833 shall include such members of Her Majesty’s Privy Council as are for the time being holding or have held any of the offices in the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 and this Act, described as high judicial offices [F1but no person shall be a member of that Committee by virtue of this section at any time after the day on which he attains the age of seventy-five years unless he is for the time being the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.]
F1Words in s. 3 added (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 1(1) (with Sch. 7 paras. 2(2), 3(2), 4); S.I. 1995/631, art.2
M11833 c. 41.
The expression “high judicial office” as defined in the twenty-fifth section of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 shall be deemed to include the office of a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and the office of a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
This Act may be cited as the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1887.
Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1887