Statute Law Revision Act 1892

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1892 c. 19
Year1892


Statute Law Revision Act, 1892

(55 & 56 Vict.) CHAPTER 19.

An Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing Enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary.

[20th June 1892]

Whereas it is expedient that certain enactments which may be regarded as spent, or have ceased to be in force otherwise than by express specific repeal by Parliament, or have, by lapse of time or otherwise, become unnecessary, should be expressly and specifically repealed:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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:

S-1 Enactments in schedule repealed.

1 Enactments in schedule repealed.

1. The enactments described in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed, subject to the provisions of this Act and subject to the exceptions and qualifications in the schedule mentioned; and every part of a title, preamble, or recital specified after the words ‘in part, namely,’ in connexion with an Act mentioned in the said schedule may be omitted from any revised edition of the statutes published by authority after the passing of this Act, and there may be added in the said edition such brief statement of the Acts, officers, persons, and things mentioned in the title, preamble, or recital, as may in consequence, of such omission appear necessary:

Provided as follows:

The repeal of any words or expressions of enactment described in the said schedule shall not affect the binding force, operation, or construction of any statute, or of any part of a statute, whether as respects the past or the future;

and where any enactment not comprised in the said schedule has been repealed, confirmed, revived, or perpetuated by any enactment hereby repealed, such repeal, confirmation, revivor, or perpetuation shall not be affected by the repeal effected by this Act;

and the repeal by this Act of any enactment or schedule shall not affect any enactment in which such enactment or schedule has been applied, incorporated, or referred to;

nor shall such repeal of any enactment affect any right to any hereditary revenues of the Crown, or affect any charges thereupon or prevent any such enactment from being put in force for the collection of any such revenues, or otherwise in relation thereto;

and this Act shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect, or consequences of anything already done or suffered,—or any existing status or capacity,—or any right, title, obligation, or liability already acquired, accrued, or incurred, or any remedy or proceeding in respect thereof,—or any release or discharge of or from any debt, penalty, obligation, liability, claim, or demand,—or any indemnity,—or the proof of any past act or thing;

nor shall this Act affect any principle or rule of law or equity, or established jurisdiction, form or course of pleading, practice, or procedure, or the general or public nature of any statute, or any existing usage, franchise, liberty, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office, appointment, payment, allowance, emolument, or benefit, or any prospective right, notwithstanding that the same respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognised, or derived by, in, or from any enactment hereby repealed;

nor shall this Act revive or restore any jurisdiction, office, duty, drawback, fee, payment, franchise, liberty, custom, liability, right, title, privilege, restriction, exemption, usage, practice, procedure, form of punishment, or other matter or thing not now existing or in force;

and this Act shall not extend to repeal any enactment so far as the same may be in force in any part of Her Majesty's dominions out of the United Kingdom, except where otherwise expressed in the said schedule.

S-2 Application of repealed enactments in local courts.

2 Application of repealed enactments in local courts.

2. If and so far as any enactment repealed by this Act applies or may have been by Order in Council applied to the court of the county palatine of Lancaster or to any inferior court of civil jurisdiction, such enactment shall be construed as if it were contained in a local and personal Act specially relating to such court and shall have effect accordingly.

S-3 Short title.

3 Short title.

3. This Act may be cited as theStatute Law Revision Act, 1892.

SCHEDULE.

This schedule is to be read as referring to the Revised Edition of the Statutes prepared under the direction of the Statute Law Committee in all cases of Statutes included in that edition; and as referring in the case of all Statutes not so included and passed before the reign of George the First, to the edition prepared under the direction of the Record Commission.

A description or citation of a portion of an Act includes the words mentioned or referred to as forming the beginning or as forming the end of the portion comprised in the description or citation.

Enactments which have been already repealed are, in a few instances, included in the schedule, in order to avoid the necessity of reference to previous Statutes.

Reign and Chapter.

Title.
25 Edw. 1. c. 17. Pleas of the Crown.
4 Will. & Mar. c. 4.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ‘An Act for takeing’ and ends with the word ‘Westminster.’

In part; namely,—

Sections one and two.

Reign and Chapter.

Title.
9 Will. 3. c. 44.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ‘An Act for raising’ and ends with the words ‘East Indies.’

Repealed as to all Her Majesty's dominions.

1 Geo. 1. stat. 2. c. 5.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ‘An Act for preventing’ and ends with the words ‘the Rioter.’

In part; namely,—

Section four, the words ‘without benefit of clergy,’ where they first occur; and from ‘and shall suffer’ to the end of the section.

Section nine, from ‘and . . . all and every’ to ‘of moveables.’

11 Geo. 1. c. 26.

An Act for more effectual disarming the Highlands in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland; and for the better securing the Peace and Quiet of that Part of the Kingdom.

20 Geo. 2. c. 43.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ‘An Act for taking’ and ends with the words ‘more complete.’

In part; namely,—

Section one, from ‘and all stewartries’ to ‘dependant thereupon,’ and from ‘from and after’ to ‘forty-eight.’

Sections three to five.

Section sixteen.

Section eighteen.

Section twenty.

Section twenty-two.

Section twenty-nine, from ‘be an advocate’ to ‘of March,’ and from ‘with such continuance’ to ‘of their continuance,’ and from ‘and that it shall and may be lawful’ to ‘are to be so held,’ and the whole section so far as it relates to salaried sheriffs' substitutes.

Section thirty.

21 Geo. 2. c. 19.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ‘An Act . . . . for abrogating’ and ends with the words ‘therein mentioned.’

In part; namely,—

Sections seven to nine.

Section twelve.

22 Geo. 2. c. 27.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ‘An Act for the’ and ends with the word ‘Wages.’

In part; namely,—

The words ‘be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that’ in sections two, four, and seven.

Section five, the words ‘and it is hereby enacted.’

Section six, the words ‘and it is hereby further enacted.’

Reign and Chapter. Title.
28 Geo. 2. c. 7.

An Act concerning the offices of Sheriff Depute and Stewart Depute in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland.

In Part; namely,—

The whole Act except the words ‘the offices of sheriff depute and stewart depute shall be granted and held ad vitam ant culpam’ where they last occur.

12 Geo. 3. c. 24.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ‘An Act for the better’ and ends with the words ‘and Stores.’

In part; namely,—

Section one, from ‘and shall suffer,’ to the end of the section, so far as relates to Scotland.

13 Geo. 3. c. 63.

An Act for establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe.

In part; namely,—

Section nine, from ‘and constantly’ where those words first occur to ‘united company’ where those words next occur, and from ‘and the court of directors’ to the end of the section.

Section ten, from ‘and shall not be removeable’ to ‘remaining and surviving.’

Section twelve.

Section sixteen.

Sections eighteen and nineteen.

Section thirty-three, to ‘seventy-four.’

Section thirty-six.

Section thirty-eight.

Section forty-six.

Repealed as to all Her Majesty's dominions.

17 Geo. 3. c. 56.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ‘An Act for amending’ and ends with the words ‘Journeymen Dyers.’

In part; namely,—

Section two, from ‘and be it’ to ‘aforesaid.’

Section three, from ‘for any time’ where those words lastly occur, to the end of the section.

Section four, from ‘be it’ to ‘aforesaid, that,’ the word ‘that’ before ‘then such,’ and from ‘for any time’ to the end of the section.

The words ‘be it further enacted, that’ in sections eleven, thirteen, fourteen, and twenty-five.

The words ‘and be it further enacted’ in sections twelve, twenty-two, and twenty-three.

Section fourteen, from ‘all which said respective’ to ‘adjudged guilty,’ and from ‘and if no sufficient’ to the end of the section.

Section seventeen, from ‘to remain for any time’ to the end of the section.

Section twenty, from ‘to be holden’ where those words lastly occur, to the end of the section.

Section twenty-one.

Section twenty-two, from ‘and the justices before whom’ to the end of the section.

Reign and Chapter. Title.
21 Geo. 3. c. 70.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ‘An Act to explain’ and ends with the words ‘Supreme Court.’

In part; namely,—

Sections nine to sixteen.

Sections nineteen to the end.

Repealed as to all Her Majesty's Dominions.

23 Geo. 3. c. 45.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ‘An...

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