Statute Law Revision Act 1872 Explained

Short Title:	Statute Law Revision Act 1872^[1]
Type:	Act
Parliament:	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long Title:	An Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing certain Enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary.
Year:	1872
Citation:	35 & 36 Vict. c. 63
Royal Assent:	10 August 1872
Commencement:	10 August 1872^[2]
Repealing Legislation:	Statute Law Revision Act 1894
Status:	partially_repealed
Original Text:	https://archive.org/details/publicgeneralst00britgoog/page/402/

The Statute Law Revision Act 1872^[1] (35 & 36 Vict. c. 63) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was intended, in particular, to facilitate the preparation of the revised edition of the statutes then in progress.^[3]

This act was partly in force in Great Britain at the end of 2010.^[4]

The enactments which were repealed (whether for the whole or any part of the United Kingdom) by this act were repealed so far as they extended to the Isle of Man^[5] on 25 July 1991.^[6]

This act was retained for the Republic of Ireland by section 2(2)(a) of, and Part 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007.

Section 2

This section amended the explanatory note of the Schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1871. It was repealed by section 1 of, and schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 56).

Schedule

The schedule was repealed by section 1 of, and schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 56).

References

Halsbury's Statutes,
The Public General Statutes passed in the Thirty-Fifth and Thirty-Sixth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1872. Queen's Printer. East Harding Street, London. 1872. Pages 402 et seq. Digitised copy from Internet Archive.

External links

List of amendments and repeals in the Republic of Ireland from the Irish Statute Book.
Book: Sessional papers . HC 1872 v (197) 345 . 11 July 1872 . Statute Law Revision Bill . ["Note" and "Schedule" of the bill (unlike the schedule of the act as passed) gives commentary on each scheduled act, noting any earlier repeals and the reason for the new repeal]

Notes and References

The citation of this act by this short title is authorised by section 3 of this act.
The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793
The Statute Law Revision Act 1872, preamble
The Chronological Table of the Statutes, 1235 - 2010. The Stationery Office. 2011. . Part 1. Page 472, read with pages viii and x.
The Statute Law Revision (Isle of Man) Act 1991, sections 1(1) and 2(2) and Schedule 1
The Interpretation Act 1978, section 4(b)