Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1800

Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1800

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Citation	41 Geo. 3. (G.B.) c. 5
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	8 December 1800
Commencement	8 December 1800 [a]
Repealed	21 August 1871
Other legislation
Amends	See § Continued enactments
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1871
Relates to	See Expiring laws continuance legislation
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1800 (41 Geo. 3. (G.B.) c. 5) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that continued various older acts.

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In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliament remain in force until expressly repealed.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 Importation (No. 3) Act 1799 (39 Geo. 3. c. 87), as continued by the Continuance of Laws Act 1799 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 9) and as amended and continued by the Importation and Exportation Act 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 58), the Use of Sugar in Brewing Act 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 62), the Duties on Spirits Act 1799 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 8), the Duties on Wash Made from Sugar Act 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 61) "so far as relates to the Duties on Wort or Wash brewed or made from Melasses or Sugar" and the Distillation from Wheat, etc. Act 1799 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 7), as continued by the Distillation From Wheat, etc. Act 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 21), until 40 days after the start of the first session of parliament after 1 September 1801. ^[2]

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict.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. The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.

References

1. Imprisonment in Medieval England. CUP Archive. p. 345.
2. Britain, Great (1800). The Statutes at Large: From Magna Carta, to the End of the Last Parliament, [1800]. Vol. 18. Mark Baskett, and by the assigns of Robert Baskett, and by Henry Woodfall and William Strahan. pp. 543–544.