XVRegulation of any Office existing previous to 6 Anne, c.7 not to bring it within the Provisions of that Act.

And be it further enacted, That the Regulation of any Office under the Provisions of this Act which was an Office existing previous to an Act palled in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Security of Her Majesty s Person and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the Protestant Line, shall not be held to be a new Office within the Intent and Meaning of that Act of Parliament; but every Person holding any such Office so regulated shall be and remain in the same Situation with respect to that Act of Parliament, as if the same had not been regulated under the Provisions of this Act.