Statute Law Revision Act 1887 Explained

Short Title:	Statute Law Revision Act 1887^[1]
Parliament:	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long Title:	An Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing Enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary.
Year:	1887
Statute Book Chapter:	50 & 51 Vict. c. 59
Royal Assent:	16 September 1887
Commencement:	16 September 1887^[2]
Status:	Amended

The Statute Law Revision Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 59) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

This Act was partly in force in Great Britain at the end of 2010.^[3]

The enactments which were repealed (whether for the whole or any part of the United Kingdom) by this Act were repealed so far as they extended to the Isle of Man^[4] on 25 July 1991.^[5]

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.

The Schedule to this Act was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (8 Edw 7 c 49).

See also

• Statute Law Revision Act

References

• The Public General Acts passed in the fiftieth and fifty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. HMSO. London. 1887. Pages 307 to 322.

External links

• List of amendments and repeals in the Republic of Ireland from the Irish Statute Book.

Notes and References

1. The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by section 2 of this Act.
2. The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793
3. The Chronological Table of the Statutes, 1235 - 2010. The Stationery Office. 2011. . Part 1. Page 536, read with pages viii and x.
4. The Statute Law Revision (Isle of Man) Act 1991, sections 1(1) and 2(2) and Schedule 1
5. The Interpretation Act 1978, section 4(b)