The Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1788 (28 Geo. 3. c. 24) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that continued various older acts.
The Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1788 (28 Geo. 3. c. 24) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that continued various older acts.
In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliament remain in force until expressly repealed.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]
Section 1 of the act continued the Exportation Act 1756 (29 Geo. 2. c. 15), as continued by the Exportation (No. 4) Act 1770 (10 Geo. 3. c. 38), the Bounties Act 1779 (19 Geo. 3. c. 27) and the Continuance of Laws Act 1787 (27 Geo. 3. c. 36), from the expiration of the act until the end of the next session of parliament after 24 June 1793. [2]
Section 2 of the act continued the Bankrupts Act 1731 (5 Geo. 2. c. 30), as continued by the Continuance, etc., of Acts, 1735 (9 Geo. 2. c. 18) and the Bankrupts Act 1742 (16 Geo. 2. c. 27), as amended and continued by the Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1750 (24 Geo. 2. c. 57) and continued by the Continuance of Laws, etc., (No. 2) Act 1757 (31 Geo. 2. c. 35), the Bankrupts, etc. Act 1763 (4 Geo. 3. c. 36), the Bankrupts Act 1772 (12 Geo. 3. c. 47), the Continuance of Laws Act 1776 (16 Geo. 3. c. 54), the Continuance of Laws Act 1781 (21 Geo. 3. c. 29) and the Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1786 (26 Geo. 3. c. 80), from the expiration of the act until the end of the next session of parliament after 29 September 1793. [2]
Section 3 of the act continued the Penitentiary Act 1779 (19 Geo. 3. c. 74) and so much of the Transportation, etc. Act 1784 (24 Geo. 3. Sess. 2. c. 56) "as extends to authorise the Removal of Offenders to temporary Places of Confinement" from the expiration of those enactments until the end of the next session of parliament after 1 June 1793. [2]
Section 4 of the act amended the Transportation, etc. Act 1784 (24 Geo. 3. Sess. 2. c. 56), providing that offenders who were to be conveyed to temporary places of confinement under that act should be removed to temporary places of confinement during such confinement, and should be treated and visited in the same manner as offenders sentenced to hard labour under the Penitentiary Act 1779 (19 Geo. 3. c. 74), with all expenses for their maintenance or death to be defrayed by overseers appointed by the Crown in the same manner as expenses for offenders under the Penitentiary Act 1779 (19 Geo. 3. c. 74). [2]
Section 5 of the act provided that the Crown could authorize persons to make contracts for transporting offenders, with such contracts being as valid as those made under the Transportation, etc. Act 1784 (24 Geo. 3. Sess. 2. c. 56). [2]
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).