Government of India Act 1833

Saint Helena Act 1833
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act for effecting an engagement with the East India Company, and for the better Government of His Majesty's Indian Territories, till the Thirtieth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Citation3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 85
Territorial extent 
Dates
Royal assent28 August 1833
Commencement22 April 1834
Other legislation
Amended by
Relates toEast India Company Act 1772
Status: Partially repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Government of India Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 85), sometimes called the East India Company Act 1833 or the Charter Act 1833, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, later retitled as the Saint Helena Act 1833. It extended the royal charter granted to the East India Company for an additional twenty years, and restructured the governance of British India.