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title: "Greenwich Hospital Act 1885"
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# Greenwich Hospital Act 1885

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Greenwich Hospital Act 1885
1885 c.42
An Act to provide for defraying the Expenditure on account of Greenwich Hospital directly out of the Revenues of Greenwich Hospital; to amend in other respects the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1883; and to amend the law relating to the Naval Knights of Windsor.
[31st July 1885]

## 1 Short title and construction of Act. {#section-1}

This Act may be cited as the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1885; and this Act and the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1883, shall be read and have effect together as one Act, and may be cited together as the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1885.

## 2 Expenditure to be defrayed out of revenues of Greenwich Hospital. {#section-2}

All expenditure which under the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1883, is in the first instance defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament for the purpose, shall be defrayed directly out of the money for the time being standing to the credit of the Greenwich Hospital Income Account.
If in any year the money standing to the credit of that account should prove inadequate to meet the expenditure chargeable on it, it shall be the duty of Her Majesty’s Paymaster-General from time to time, under the direction of the Admiralty, to carry over from the Greenwich Hospital Capital Account such sums as may be required to make good any such deficiency.

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## 5 Amendment of 35 & 36 Vict. c. 67. s. 5. {#section-5}

The total number of boys and girls being educated and maintained under section five of the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1872, at any one time shall not exceed such number as may from time to time be prescribed by Her Majesty in Council.

## 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-6}



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## SCHEDULE {#schedule}

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