Militia Act 1802
3. c. 90) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom affecting the Militia, a locally raised force for home defence.Following the restoration of Charles II in 1660, Parliament passed several acts empowering the lord-lieutenant of each county to appoint officers and raise men for the English Militia.The militia's usefulness as a military force, never great, declined thereafter, until by the middle of the 18th century it required a major overhaul.Following the formation of the United Kingdom in 1801, Parliament brought forward bills to consolidate acts relating to each of the English, Scottish and Irish militias.[3] The amended bill was considered to by the House of Commons on 14 June 1802, and was committed to a select committee, consisting of 14 members of parliament.[2][3] The conference met again on 22 June 1802, during which the Lords insisted on an amendment "calculated to prevent the Fraud and Imposition to which the Mode of Proof of the Fact of a Person being a Quaker, hitherto required by Law, and prescribed by the Bill, has been found liable", which was accepted by the Commons.[4] Each county's Lord Lieutenant would set the amount of militiamen to be raised from the various areas of their country (for example, dividing it by hundreds), and parish constables would draw up lists of all eligible men between 18 and 45.[4] Any men who died or were discharged as unfit would produce a second ballot of the county (in practice, probably of his local parish) to find a replacement.
Parliament of the United KingdomLong titleCitation42 Geo. 3Charles Philip YorkeEngland and WalesRoyal assentCommencementHighway Act 1835Statute Law Revision Act 1872Statute Law Revision Act 1873Statute Law Revision Act 1874Statute Law Revision Act 1888Territorial Army and Militia Act 1921Repealed byMilitia Act 1786Militia (Scotland) Act 1802Militia (Ireland) Act 1802Militia43 Geo. 3City of LondonCinque PortsStannariesrestoration of Charles IIlord-lieutenantEnglish MilitiaCity of London Militia Act 166214 Cha. 2Kingdom of Great BritainBritish MilitiaSeven Years' War26 Geo. 3United KingdomSecretary at WarChancellor of the ExchequerHenry AddingtonRobert SteeleGeorge FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Graftonfirst readingHouse of Commonssecond readingcommittee of the whole housethird readingHouse of Lordsselect committeemembers of parliamentSylvester Douglas, 1st Baron GlenbervieEdward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of DerbyRobert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of LiverpoolJohn Fane, 10th Earl of WestmorlandGeorge Howard, 6th Earl of CarlisleFrancis GregorSir William LemonGeneral Isaac GascoyneRichard Grosvenor, 1st Earl GrosvenorSir William ElfordIsaac CorryJohn Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of SheffieldSir James St Clair ErskineSir Henry Paulet St John-MildmaySir Robert BuxtonThomas TyrwhittSir Nathaniel HollandCharles Shaw LefevreHenry JodrellSir George FitzGerald HillBernard Howard, 12th Duke of NorfolkGeorge Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of EssexWilliam Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl FitzwilliamJacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of RadnorHenry Herbert, 2nd Earl of CarnarvonAlexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of RosslynRobert Hobart, 4th Earl of BuckinghamshireThomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of ChichesterGeorge Eden, 1st Earl of AucklandHenry Dundas, 1st Viscount MelvilleJames MartinRichard Brinsley SheridanGeorge JohnstoneGeorge TierneyAlderman Harvey Christian CombeWilliam DickinsonWilliam SturgesJohn NichollsRichard Bateman-RobsonWilliam FullartonSir Charles Henry TalbotSir John William AndersonSir John HonywoodBenjamin HobhouseEdward GoldingSir William DolbenRobert Stewart, Viscount CastlereaghRt Hon. William WickhamWilliam AdamsGeneral Nisbet BalsourRichard EllisonJohn FordyceWhitshed KeeneJohn SimpsonGeorge Legge, 3rd Earl of DartmouthGeorge de Grey, 3rd Baron WalsinghamCharles Cocks, 1st Baron SomersRichard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron AlvanleyFrench Revolutionary Warshundredsballotparish rateQuakers33 Geo. 335 Geo. 337 Geo. 3Militia Act 1796Militia (No. 2) Act 179638 Geo. 339 Geo. 339 & 40 Geo. 3Militia Act 179911 & 12 Geo. 5short titleShort Titles Act 1896Interpretation Act 1978Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793legislation.gov.ukThe National Archives