Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act 1962

The Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act 1962^[1]
Dates
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to provide for the numbering and citation of future Acts of Parliament by reference to the calendar year in which they are passed.
Citation	10 & 11 Eliz 2 c 34
Introduced by	Viscount Kilmuir (the Lord Chancellor)
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Royal Assent	19 July 1962
Commencement	19 July 1962^[2]
Revised text of statute as amended

The Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act 1962 (10 & 11 Eliz 2 c 34) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has never been amended. It was introduced because the existing system of citing Acts by session and chapter was considered "inconvienient".^[3]

Provisions

Section 1

This section provides that the chapter number of every Act of Parliament passed on or after 1 January 1963 is assigned by reference to the calendar year in which it has been passed, instead of by reference to the session of parliament in which it has been passed.

It further provides that any such Act may be cited accordingly in any Act, instrument or document.

Section 2

This section authorises the citation of this Act by a short title.

References

Halsbury's Statutes. Fourth Edition. 2008 Reissue. Volume 41. Page 767.

↑ The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by section 2 of this Act. The comma preceding the calendar year in printed copies of this Act is omitted on the authority of a note by Sir Noel Hutton QC, First Parliamentary Counsel, as to which see "The Citation of Statutes" 82 LQR 24-24. The validity of this note is questioned by Halsbury's Laws of England, Fourth Edition, Reissue, Volume 44(1), footnote 10 to paragraph 1268.
↑ This Act came into force on the date on which it received royal assent because no other date was specified: The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.
↑ Viscount Kilmuir, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1962/jan/25/acts-of-parliament-number-ing-and#column_989

Parliamentary debates

External links

The Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act 1962, from the National Archives.

United Kingdom legislation

Pre-Parliamentary legislation	List of English statutes Charter of Liberties Magna Carta

Acts of Parliament by states preceding the Kingdom of Great Britain	Acts of the Parliament of England to 1483 1485–1601 1603–1641 Interregnum (1642–1660) 1660–1699 1700–1706 Acts of the Parliament of Scotland Acts of the Parliament of Ireland to 1700 1701–1800

Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain	1707–1719 1720–1739 1740–1759 1760–1779 1780–1800

Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1801–1819 1820–1839 1840–1859 1860–1879 1880–1899 1900–1919 1920–1939 1940–1959 1960–1979 1980–1999 2000 to date Halsbury's Statutes UK Statute Law Database Short titles

Church of England measures	List Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919

Legislation of devolved institutions	Acts of the Scottish Parliament Acts and Measures of the National Assembly for Wales Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly Acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland Orders in Council for Northern Ireland

Orders-in-Council	Order in Council

Secondary legislation	United Kingdom Statutory Instruments Scottish Statutory Instruments Act of Sederunt, Act of Adjournal

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