Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1774

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Act of Parliament
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Parliament of Great Britain
Long title An Act to continue the several Laws therein mentioned for the better Encouragement of the making of Sail Cloth in Great Britain; and for securing the Duties upon foreign-made Sail Cloth, and charging foreign-made Sails with a Duty.
Citation 14 Geo. 3. c. 80
Territorial extent  Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent 14 June 1774
Commencement 13 January 1774 [a]
Repealed21 August 1871
Other legislation
AmendsSee § Continued enactments
Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871
Relates to
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1774 (14 Geo. 3. c. 80) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that continued various older acts.

Contents

Background

In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliament remain in force until expressly repealed. Many acts of parliament, however, contained time-limited sunset clauses, requiring legislation to revive enactments that had expired or to continue enactments that would otherwise expire. [1]

Provisions

Continued enactments

Section 1 of the act continued the Sail Cloth Act 1759 (33 Geo. 2. c. 17), as continued by the Customs Act 1768 (8 Geo. 3. c. 23), from the expiration of the act until the end of the next session of parliament after 29 September 1781. [2]

Section 2 continued the Sail Cloth Act 1745 (19 Geo. 2. c. 27), as continued by the Continuance of Laws, etc. Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2. c. 32), the Continuance of Laws Act 1758 (32 Geo. 2. c. 23) and the Continuance of Laws Act 1766 (6 Geo. 3. c. 44), from the expiration of the act until the end of the next session of parliament after 24 June 1781. [2]

Legacy

The Select Committee on Temporary Laws, Expired or Expiring, appointed in 1796, inspected and considered all temporary laws, observing irregularities in the construction of expiring laws continuance acts, making recommendations and emphasising the importance of the Committee for Expired and Expiring Laws. [3]

The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 116).

Notes

  1. ↑ Start of session.

References

  1. ↑ Imprisonment in Medieval England. CUP Archive. p. 345.
  2. 1 2 Britain, Great (1773). Statutes at Large ...: (43 v.) ... From Magna charta to 1800. Vol. 30.
  3. ↑ Commons, Great Britain Parliament House of (1803). Reports from Committees of the House of Commons which Have Been Printed by Order of the House: And are Not Inserted in the Journals [1715-1801. Vol. 14. pp. 34–118.
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