Act of Parliament | |
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Long title | An Act to promote the reform of the statute law by the repeal, in accordance with recommendations of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission, of certain enactments which (except in so far as their effect is preserved) are no longer of practical utility. |
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Citation | 2013 c. 2 |
Introduced by | Lord McNally [1] (Lords) |
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Dates | |
Royal assent | 31 January 2013 [2] |
Commencement | 31 January 2013 |
Other legislation | |
Relates to | Statute Law (Repeals) Acts |
Status: Current legislation | |
History of passage through Parliament | |
Text of statute as originally enacted |
The Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2013 (c. 2) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which repealed the whole of 817 acts of Parliament, and portions of more than 50 others. It is the largest Statute Law (Repeals) Act which has been recommended by the Law Commission. [3]
Schedule 1 listed repeals and revocations. The enactments repealed in full included:
Part 1 listed acts relating to benevolent societies that no longer existed (plus the Philanthropic Society, whose successor Catch22 is now regulated by charity law).
Part 2 covered enactments relating to criminal law.
The Police Act 1969 (c. 63) was technically still in force despite all of its sections having been repealed since 1994.
Part 3 listed acts relating to railways in India, no longer under British sovereignty.
Part 4 relates to Dublin, no longer under British sovereignty.
Part 5 relates to courts that no longer exist.
Part 6 covers acts relating to London, for churches and improvements, and acts regulating London gas lights, which had been replaced with electric lights.
Part 7 covered lotteries from past centuries.
Part 8 contained acts relating to long-since reformed aspects of poor law.
Part 9 listed acts relating to railways.
Part 10 covered taxation.
A tax of two pennies Scots (equivalent to one sixth of an old penny sterling) was imposed by a series of local acts for specific burghs in Scotland. This allowed the burgh to raise money for local projects, such as road building. These acts included expiry dates, and were spent, having not been extended.
Part 11 lists acts relating to long-since abolished turnpike trusts.