Continuance of Laws (No. 3) Act 1800

Continuance of Laws (No. 3) Act 1800

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Citation	41 Geo. 3. (G.B.) c. 20
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	31 December 1800
Commencement	29 September 1800 [a]
Repealed	21 August 1871
Other legislation
Amends	See § Revived and 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Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1871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Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted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. 3) Act 1800 (41 Geo. 3. (G.B.) c. 20) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that revived and 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In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliament remain in force until expressly repealed.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

Revived and continued enactments

Section 1 of the act revived and continued so much of the Duties on Spirits Act 1799 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 8) "as relates to the reducing and better collecting the Duties payable on the Importation of Starch" from 29 September 1800 until 6 weeks after the start of the next session of parliament. ^[2]

Section 1 of the act also provided that any foreign starch imported under the authority of the revived act, for which duties had not been actually paid, would be subject to a duty of threepence farthing per pound weight avoirdupois. ^[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The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict.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. Section 1.

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. p. 577.