Statute Law Revision Act 1894 Explained

Short Title:	Statute Law Revision Act 1894^[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:	1894
Statute Book Chapter:	57 & 58 Vict. c. 56
Royal Assent:	25 August 1894

The Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 56) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

This Act was repealed for the United Kingdom by Group 1 of Part XVI of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993.

The enactments which were repealed (whether for the whole or any part of the United Kingdom) by this Act were repealed so far as they extended to the Isle of Man^[2] on 25 July 1991.^[3]

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Section 2 - Application of repealed enactments in local courts

The words "to the court of the county palatine of Lancaster or" in this section were repealed by section 56(4) of, and Part II of Schedule 11 to, the Courts Act 1971. This section was repealed by section 32(4) of, and Part V of Schedule 5 to, the Administration of Justice Act 1977.

Section 3 - Substituted repeals

This section provided that the Second Schedule to this Act was to be substituted for so much of the Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1888 and of the Statute Law Revision Act 1892 as related to the Small Debt (Scotland) Act 1837 and to 4 & 5 Vict. c. 10, and that the said Statute Law Revision Acts were to be read and construed accordingly.

This section was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1908.

Schedules

Both Schedules were repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1908.

References

Halsbury's Statutes,
The Public General Acts passed in the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. HMSO. London. 1894. Pages 183 to 244.

External links

List of amendments and repeals in the Republic of Ireland from the Irish Statute Book
Book: Sessional papers . HC 1894 viii (354) 303 . 10 August 1894 . 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 was, and for the Republic of Ireland still is, authorised by section 5 of this Act. Due to the repeal of this Act, it is now authorised for the United Kingdom by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
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)