Statute Law Revision Act 1898

This article is about the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. For the Act of the Parliament of New South Wales, see Statute Law Revision Act § New South Wales.

Statute Law Revision Act 1898[1]
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing Enactments which have ceased to be in force or become unnecessary.
Citation61 & 62 Vict. c. 22
Dates
Royal assent25 July 1898
Other legislation
Repeals/revokes
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Statute Law Revision Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 22) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

This Act was repealed for the United Kingdom by Group 1 of Part IX of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998.

The enactments which were repealed (whether for the whole or any part of the United Kingdom) by this Act were repealed so far as they extended to the Isle of Man[2] on 25 July 1991.[3]

This Act was retained for the Republic of Ireland by section 2(2)(a) of, and Part 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007.

Section 2 – Application of repealed enactments in local courts

This section was repealed by section 32(4) of, and Part V of Schedule 5 to, the Administration of Justice Act 1977.

Section 3 – Substituted repeals

This section provided that the second part of the Schedule to this Act was to be substituted for so much of the Statute Law Revision Act 1893 as related to the Record of Title Act (Ireland) 1865, and that the Statute Law Revision Act 1893 was to be read and construed as if the part so substituted had originally been enacted therein.

This section was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1908.

Schedule

The Schedule was by[clarification needed] section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1908.

See also

References

  • Halsbury's Statutes,
  • The Public General Acts passed in the sixty-first and sixty-second years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. HMSO. London. 1898. Pages 45 to 95.
  1. ^ The citation of this Act by this short title was, and for the Republic of Ireland still is, authorised by section 4 of this Act. Due to the repeal of this Act, it is authorised for the United Kingdom by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. ^ The Statute Law Revision (Isle of Man) Act 1991, sections 1(1) and 2(2) and Schedule 1
  3. ^ The Interpretation Act 1978, section 4(b)
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