City of London Militia Act 1662

Territorial extent England and WalesDatesRoyal assent19 May 1662Commencement7 January 1662History of passage through ParliamentText of statute as originally enactedText of the City of London Militia Act 1662 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The City of London Militia Act 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 3) or Militia Act 1662^{[n 1]} is an Act of the Parliament of England which codified the power of [lord-]lieutenants of places in England and Wales to raise the militia. In practice, most lieutenancy areas were counties, but the 1662 act made exemptions for the Constable of the Tower and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports to act as lieutenants within their jurisdictions (the Tower Hamlets and Confederation of Cinque Ports respectively). Most provisions of the 1662 act were implicitly repealed by subsequent Militia Acts,^[5] and the whole act was explicitly repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1863 except in relation to the City of London, Tower Hamlets, and Cinque Ports. The Territorial Army and Militia Act 1921 repealed the whole act except for section 1 in relation to the Lord Lieutenant of the City of London and section 26 in relation to levying rates for the City of London Militia. The restricted scope of its remaining provisions was reflected in the official short title City of London Militia Act 1662 assigned in 1948. Section 1 was repealed by the Reserve Forces Act 1980, while as of 2023^[update] section 26 as amended remains in force in England and Wales.^[6]

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• The City of London Militia Act 1662, as amended, from Legislation.gov.uk.
• Raithby, John, ed. (1819). "Charles II, 1662: An Act for ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom". Statutes of the Realm: Volume 5, 1628-80. Great Britain Record Commission. pp. 358–364 – via British History Online.