Expiring Laws Act, 1931
(22 & 23 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 2.
An Act to deal with certain Expiring Laws by making some of them permanent and continuing the remainder for limited periods.
[1st December 1931]
Whereas the Acts mentioned in the Schedules to this Act are, in so far as they are in force and are temporary in their duration, limited to expire—
a
) as respects those mentioned in the First Schedule
and in Parts I and III of the Second Schedule
on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen
hundred and thirty-one; and
b
) as respects that mentioned in Part II of the
Second Schedule, in England on the twenty-fifth
day of December, nineteen hundred and
thirty-one, and in Scotland on the twenty-eighth
day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-two
And whereas it is expedient that the Acts mentioned in the First Schedule should be made permanent and that the Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule should be continued as in this Act mentioned, together in each case with any enactments amending or affecting the same:
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
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Certain Acts to be made permanent.1 Certain Acts to be made permanent.
1. Notwithstanding anything in any other Act, the Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act shall, to the extent specified in column three of that Schedule, become permanent Acts.
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Certain Acts to be continued temporarily.2 Certain Acts to be continued temporarily.
(1) The Acts mentioned in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, to the extent specified in column three of that Schedule, be continued until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-two.
(2) The Act mentioned in Part II of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, to the extent specified in column three of that Schedule, be continued in England until the twenty-fifth day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and in Scotland until the twenty-eighth day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-three.
(3) The Acts mentioned in Part III of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, to the extent specified in column three of that Schedule, be continued until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-four.
3 Amending enactments.
3. Any unrepealed enactments amending or affecting the enactments made permanent or continued by this Act shall, in so far as they are temporary in their duration, become permanent or be continued (as the case may be) in like manner, whether they are mentioned in the First or Second Schedule to this Act, or not.
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Short title, and application to Northern Ireland.4 Short title, and application to Northern Ireland.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Expiring Laws Act, 1931 .
(2) This Act shall apply to Northern Ireland in so far as it deals with any enactment relating to a subject with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has no power to make laws, but subject to this provision this Act shall not apply to Northern Ireland.
S C H E D U L E S.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
Enactments made Permanent.
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Session and Chapter.
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Short Title.
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3.
How far made permanent.
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4.
Amending Acts.
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58 & 59 Vict. c. 21. |
The Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1895. |
The whole Act. |
2 & 3 Geo. 5. c. 10. |
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4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 78. |
The Courts (Emergency Powers) Act, 1914. |
So far as it relates to orders made by any court before the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-two. |
6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 13.
6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 18.
7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 25.
9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 64.
10 Geo. 5. c. 5.
13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 8.
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6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 12. |
The Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1916. |
Section six, so far as it confers rights on officers or servants of a local authority in respect of their service or employment in or about certain premises. |
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SECOND SCHEDULE.
Enactments Continued.
