Repeal of Obsolete Statutes Act 1856

Dates
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to repeal certain Statutes which are not in use.
Citation	19 & 20 Vict c 64
Royal Assent	21 July 1856
Commencement	21 July 1856^[1]
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The 19 & 20 Vict c 64, sometimes referred to as the Repeal of Obsolete Statutes Act 1856,^[2]^[3] was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The Bill for this Act was called the Sleeping Statutes Bill. This Act implemented recommendations made by the Statute Law Commission of 1854.^[4]

This Act repealed 120 statutes, which had been described as "obsolete".

Halsbury's Laws said that this Act was the first Act for statute law revision (in the sense of repealing enactments which are obsolete, spent, unnecessary or superseded, or which no longer serve a useful purpose).^[5] Courtenay Ilbert said that this Act was the first Statute Law Revision Act.^[6]

This Act was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1875.

References

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 19 & 20 Victoria, 1856. Queen's Printer. London. 1856. Digitised copy from Google Books.
HL Deb vol 142, cols 1895 to 1896, HC Deb vol 142, col 872 and 880.

↑ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793
↑ Current Law Statutes 1996. Sweet & Maxwell. London. W Green. Edinburgh. 1997. Volume 4. Alphabetical Table of Statutes. Page 146.
↑ Current Law Statutes Annotated 1993. Sweet & Maxwell. London. W Green. Edinburgh. 1994. Volume 4. Alphabetical Table of Statutes. Page 140.
↑ Ilbert, C P. Legislative Methods and Forms. Oxford. 1901. Reprinted by the Lawbook Exchange Ltd. 2008. Page 57. Digitised copy from Google Books.
↑ Halsbury's Laws of England. Fourth Edition. Reissue. Butterworths. London. 1995. Volume 44(1). Note 3 to paragraph 1227 at page 725.
↑ Ilbert, C P. Legislative Methods and Forms. Oxford. 1901. Reprinted by the Lawbook Exchange Ltd. 2008. Page 57.

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