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Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1872

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Statute Law Revision Act, 1872 (No. 2.)

(35 & 36 Vict.) CHAPTER 97.

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

[10th August 1872]

W HEREAS, with a view to the revision of the Statute Law, and particularly to the preparation of the Revised Edition of the Statutes now in progress, it is expedient that certain enactments (mentioned in the schedule to this Act) which may be regarded as spent, or have ceased to be in force otherwise than by express and specific repeal, or have, by lapse of time and change of circumstances, become unnecessary, should be expressly and specifically repealed: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S-1 Enactments in schedule repealed.

1 Enactments in schedule repealed.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 The enactments described in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed, subject to the exceptions and qualifications in the schedule mentioned:

Provided, that where any enactment not comprised in the schedule has been repealed, confirmed, revived, or perpetuated by any enactment hereby repealed, such repeal, confirmation, revivor, or perpetuation shall not be affected by the repeal effected by this Act: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 shall not affect any Act in which such enactment 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 or title already acquired or accrued, or any remedy or proceeding in respect thereof,—or any release or discharge of or from any debt, penalty, 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 existing usage, franchise, liberty, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office, appointment, payment, allowance, or emolument, 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, right, title, privilege, restriction, exemption, usage practice, procedure, 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 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as TheStatute Law Revision Act, 1872 (No. 2.)

Note : this act is listed in the Chronological Table of Statutes as theStatute Law Revision (No. 2) Act, 1872

S C H E D U L E.

A description or citation of a portion of an Act is inclusive of the words, section, or other part, first or last mentioned, or otherwise referred to as forming the beginning, or as forming the end, of the portion comprised in the description or citation.

GEORGE III.

47 Geo. 3. Sess. 1.

c. 2.

An Act for raising the Sum of Ten millions five hundred thousand Pounds by Loans or Exchequer Bills, for the Service of Great Britain for the Year One thousand eight hundred and seven.

c. 3.

An Act for continuing and granting to His Majesty certain Duties upon Malt in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and seven.

c. 4.

An Act for continuing and granting to His Majesty a Duty on Pensions, Offices, and Personal Estates, in England; and certain Duties on Sugar, Malt, Tobacco, and Snuff, in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and seven.

c. 6.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ,—An Act to continue, during the present War,—and ends with the words ,—Militia Forces in Ireland as might voluntarily offer themselves to be employed in Great Britain.

c. 8.

An Act to continue for the Term of Seven Years certain Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, for preventing the Importation of Arms, Gunpowder, and Ammunition, and the making, removing, selling, and keeping of Gunpowder, Arms, and Ammunition, without Licence.

c. 10.

An Act for raising the Sum of One million by Treasury Bills for the Service of Ireland for the Year One thousand eight hundred and seven.

c. 11.

An Act to authorize His Majesty, until the Twenty-fifth day of March One thousand eight hundred and eight, to make Regulations respecting the Trade and Commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope.

c. 13.

An Act for investing certain Commissioners appointed for the Examination of Accounts and Expenditure relating to the Office of Barrack Master General, with certain Powers and Authorities necessary for the Examination of such Accounts and Expenditure.

c. 14.

An Act to amend several Acts, for regulating the Trial of Controverted Elections or Returns of Members to serve in Parliament, so far as the same relate to Ireland,

Repealed so long as 31 & 32 Vict. c. 125. s. 50. continues in force.

c. 15.

An Act to continue for the Term of Seven Years, certain Acts for the better Prevention and Punishment of Attempts to seduce Persons serving in His Majesty's Forces by Sea or Land from their Duty and Allegiance to His Majesty, or to incite them to Mutiny or Disobedience.

c. 18.

An Act to grant to His Majesty certain Inland Duties of Excise and Taxes in Ireland, and to allow certain Drawbacks in respect thereof; in lieu of former Duties of Excise, Taxes, and Drawbacks.

c. 20.

An Act to suspend, until the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and seven, the Payment of all Drawbacks on Spirits made or distilled in Great Britain or Ireland, and exported from either Country to the other respectively.

c. 23.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ,—An Act for repealing so much of an Act, made in the Ninth Year,—and ends with the words ,— Possession of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors.

c. 24.

An Act for allowing, until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and eight, the Importation of certain Fish from Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador, and for granting a Bounty thereon.

c. 27.

An Act for granting to His Majesty, until Twelve Months after the Ratification of a Definitive Treaty of Peace, certain additional Duties of Excise on Brandy in Great Britain.

c. 29.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ,—An Act for further continuing, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March,—and ends with the words ,—Bounties on Sugar when the Duties imposed by an Act of the last Session of Parliament shall be suspended.

c. 30.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ,—An Act to continue, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March,—and ends with the words ,—Ships belonging to the Inhabitants of the United States of America, and coming in Ballast.

c. 31.

An Act to repeal Part of the Duty on the Importation of unmanufactured Tobacco into Ireland.

c. 32.

An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.

c. 33.

An Act for the Regulation of His Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore.

c. 34.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ,—An Act for continuing, until the First Day of August,—and ends with the words ,—Coals, Culm, or Cinders, to London and Westminster, by Inland Navigation.

c. 37.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ,—An Act to continue, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March,—and ends with the words ,—Frauds by Persons navigating Bumboats, and other Boats, upon the River Thames.

c. 39.

An Act to rectify a mistake in an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, for enabling His Majesty to settle Annuities on certain Branches of the Royal Family.

c. 41.

An Act the title of which begins with the words ,—An Act to continue, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March,—and ends with the words ,—accounting for Publick Money, in Ireland.

c. 42.

An Act to continue for Twenty-one Years, so much of certain Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, as relate to the lighting, cleansing, and watching of Cities and Towns, for the lighting, cleansing, and watching of which no particular Provision is made by any Act of Parliament.

c. 44.

An Act to amend an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, for regulating and providing for the Relief of the Poor and the Management of Infirmaries and Hospitals in Ireland.

c. 45.

An Act to continue an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirty-first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, for the better supplying the City of Dublin with Coals, and for the better Encouragement of the Collieries of Ireland.

c. 53.

An Act to suspend for Twelve Months so much of an Act of the Second Year of King James the First, intituled An Act concerning Tanners, Curriers, Shoemakers, and other Artificers, occupying the cutting of Leather, as prohibits the regrating and ingrossing of Oaken Bark.

c. 54.

An Act for increasing the Rates of Subsistence to be paid to Innkeepers and others on quartering Soldiers.

47 Geo. 3. Sess. 2.

c. 1.

An Act to continue until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and eight, several Acts for granting certain Rates and Duties, and for allowing certain Drawbacks and Bounties on Goods, Waxes, and Merchandize, imported into and exported from Ireland.

c.
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