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..

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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

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ART UNIONS ACT 1846 - SECT 1