Fires Prevention Act 1785

Fires Prevention Act 1785 ^[a]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to amend so much of the Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774, as relates to Manufactories of Turpentine: for extending the provisions of the said Act, so amended, to Manufactories of Pitch, Tar and Turpentine, throughout that part of Great Britain called England; [b] [and for indemnifying the Proprietor of a Turpentine Manufactory in Potter's Fields in the Borough of Southwark, against the Penalties he may be liable to under the said Act; and for excepting, for a limited Time, his said Manufactory from the Provisions herein contained. [c]
Citation	25 Geo. 3. c. 77
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	20 July 1785
Commencement	5 July 1785 [d]
Repealed	1 January 1968
Other legislation
Amends	Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act 1774
Amended by	Fires Prevention Act 1838 Limitations of Actions and Costs Act 1842 Statute Law Revision Act 1871 Statute Law Revision Act 1887 Statute Law Revision Act 1888 Statute Law Revision Act 1948
Repealed by	Criminal Law Act 1967
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Fires Prevention Act 1785 ^[a] or the Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act 1785 ^[e] (25 Geo. 3. c. 77) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain.

Subsequent developments

This act was partly repealed by section 2 ^[1] of the Limitations of Actions and Costs Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 97).

Sections 3 and 4 of the act were repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 116).

The following enactments were repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 59):

• The title from "and for indemnifying" to the end of the title
• Preamble

Section 1 from the beginning of the section to "repealed and that", and from "of debt" to "information" and from "at Westminster" to "allowed"

• Section 6

Section 5 of the act, from "be it" to "enacted that" was repealed by section 1(1) of, and part I of the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 3).

The words of commencement in section 1 of the act were repealed by section 1 of, and schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 62).

The whole act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 13(2) of, and part I of schedule 4 of the Criminal Law Act 1967.

Notes

1. The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 5 of, and the second schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
2. These words are printed against this act in the second column of the second schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1948, which is headed "Title".
3. This part of the short title was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 59).
4. Section 1.
5. The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.

References

• Halsbury's Statutes,

1. A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Fifth and Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1842. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1842. pp. 990–991 – via Google Books.