| Short Title: | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978[1] |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| 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; and to facilitate the citation of statutes. |
| Year: | 1978 |
| Citation: | 1978 c. 45 |
| Introduced Lords: | Lord Elwyn-Jones LC[2] |
| Royal Assent: | 31 July 1978 |
| Commencement: | 31 July 1978[3] |
| Replaces: | Crown Lands at Byfleet, Weybridge, etc., Surrey Act 1804 |
| Status: | amended |
| Original Text: | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/45/pdfs/ukpga_19780045_en.pdf |
| Use New Uk-Leg: | no |
The Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c. 45) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
This act was partly in force in Great Britain at the end of 2010.[4]
It implemented recommendations contained in the ninth report on statute law revision,[5] by the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.
Section 1(1) was repealed by Group 2 of Part IX of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998.
This section was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Part IV of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1995.
In section 3(2), the words "or the Isle of Man" were repealed by Group 2 of Part IX of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998.
Orders under this section
The power conferred by section 3(2) was exercised by the Statute Law Repeals (Isle of Man) Order 1984 (SI 1984/1692).
The Orders in Council made under section 3(2) have lapsed because of the repeal made to that section by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998.[6]
This Schedule was repealed by Group 2 of Part IX of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998.
Schedule 2 made amendments to the School Sites Act 1841, the School Grants Act 1855, and the Public Records Act (Northern Ireland) 1923.
Paragraph 1 of this schedule authorised the citation by short titles of three acts passed between 1554 and 1854.
| Citation | Short title | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Acte for thestablishing of thoffice of the L. Steward of the Quenes Majesties most Honourable Housholde. | |||
| 52 Geo. 3. c. 123 | An Act for amending an enlarging the Powers of an Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of His Present Majesty, to enable His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to grant Leases of certain Lands and Premises called Prince's Meadows, in the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Parcel of His said Royal Highness's Duchy of Cornwall, for the purpose of building thereon. | ||
| 17 & 18 Vict. c. 93 | An Act for the Exchange of the Office of Somerset House of the Duchy of Cornwall for an Office to be erected in Pimlico on the Hereditary Possessions of the Crown. |
The citation of the Clerk of Parliaments Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 82) in the Short Titles Act 1896 was amended to become the Clerk of the Parliaments Act 1824.
This Schedule was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Part IV of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1995.