Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1883
Year | 1883 |
Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act, 1883.
(46 & 47 Vict.) CHAPTER 49.
An Act for promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing various Enactments relating to Civil Procedure or matters connected there with, and for amending in some respects the Law relating to Civil Procedure.
[25th August 1883]
W HEREAS with a view to the revision of the Statute Law it is expedient that various enactments (mentioned in the schedule to this Act) which chiefly relate to civil procedure, or matters connected therewith, and which may be regarded as spent, or have ceased to be in force otherwise than by express and specific repeal by Parliament, or have by lapse of time and change of circumstances become unnecessary, or the subject matter whereof is provided for by or under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1873,and the Acts amending it, or rules made pursuant thereto, or for other reasons, may properly be repealed, be now expressly and specifically repealed:
And whereas it is expedient that in some respects the law relating to civil procedure be amended:
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:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theStatute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act, 1883.
2 Extent and commencement.
2. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. It shall come into operation on the twenty-fourth day of October one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
3 Repeal of enactments scheduled.
3. The enactments described in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed, subject to the exceptions and qualifications mentioned in this Act and in that schedule.
4 Repeal of enactments scheduled in 42 & 43 Vict. c. 59.
4. The enactments mentioned in Part II. of the schedule to the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act, 1879, are hereby repealed.
5 Savings.
5. The repeal effected by this Act shall not affect—
6 Abolished procedure not revived.
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