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title: "Forged Transfers Act 1892"
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# Forged Transfers Act 1892

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Forged Transfers Act 1892
1892 c.36
An Act to remove doubts as to the meaning of the Forged Transfers Act 1891.
[27th June 1892]

## 1 Short title. {#section-1}

This Act may be cited as the Forged Transfers Act 1892, and this Act and the Forged Transfers Act 1891, may be cited together as the Forged Transfers Acts 1891 and 1892.

## 2 Removal of doubt as to the operation of 54 &55 Vict. c. 43 {#section-2}

The Forged Transfers Act, 1891, shall have effect as if at the end of sub-section one of section one of that Act there were added the words "... whether the person receiving such compensation, or any person through whom he claims, has or has not paid any fee or otherwise contributed to any fund out of which the compensation is paid.”

## 3 Amendment of 54 & 55 Vict. c. 43. s. 1(2). {#section-3}

Sub-section two of section one of the said Act shall be read as if, after the words “on any one hundred pounds transferred,” were inserted the words “with a minimum charge equal to that for twenty-five pounds.”

## 4 Provision where one company takes over shares, &c. of another company. {#section-4}

Where the shares, stock, or securities of a company or local authority have by amalgamation or otherwise become the shares, stock, or securities of another company or local authority, the last-mentioned company and authority shall have the same power under the Forged Transfers Act 1891, and this Act, as the original company or authority would have had if it had continued.