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Government Annuities Act

Stock short title used for legislation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5588672 ↗
Source-derived summary

Government Annuities Act is a stock short title used in New Zealand and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to government annuities.

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New Zealand

The Government Annuities Act 1869 (No 60)

United Kingdom

The Government Annuities Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. 26)

The Government Annuities Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 51)

The Government Annuities (Investments) Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 46)

The Government Annuities Act 1929 (19 & 20 Geo.

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This entry incorporates text from “Government Annuities Act” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.