Statute Law Revision Act 1958

An Act to revise the statute law by repealing enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary and re-enacting a provision of certain Acts which are otherwise spent. [23rd July, 1958]

BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Repeal of obsolete, &c., Acts.

1. The Acts specified in the First Schedule to this Act (being Acts which are obsolete or spent or have been superseded by other enactments) are hereby repealed.

Repeal of obsolete, &c., provisions concerning the Crown Estate and public buildings.

2. The Acts specified in the first and second columns of the Second Schedule to this Act (which to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule are obsolete or spent, or have become unnecessary) are hereby repealed to that extent.

Repeal of provisions as to plea of general issue in civil proceedings.

3. The Acts specified in the first and second columns of the Third Schedule to this Act shall cease to have effect in so far as they entitle persons to plead the general issue in civil proceedings and are accordingly hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

Re-enactment of provision of Government War Obligations Acts, 1914 to 1919, as to payment of certain pensions, and repeal of remaining provisions thereof.

4.-(1) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament or, if those moneys are insufficient, there shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, such sums as are required for the purpose of fulfilling any obligations incurred before the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and nineteen, by the Government of His late Majesty King George the Fifth in connection with the 1914-1918 war in respect of payments for compensation in respect of persons killed or injured on any merchant ship or fishing vessel.

(2) The Government War Obligations Acts, 1914 to 1919 (whose provisions are spent with the exception of that re-enacted by the foregoing subsection) are hereby repealed.

Saving for powers of Parliament of Northern Ireland.

5. In so far as this Act relates to a matter with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws it shall, for the purposes of section six of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, be deemed to have been passed before the appointed day within the meaning of that section.

Short title.

6. This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act, 1958.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

OBSOLETE, &C., ACTS REPEALED

SECOND SCHEDULE

OBSOLETE, &C., PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE CROWN ESTATE AN PUBLIC BUILDINGS REPEALED

Crown Estate Provisions

Public Buildings Provisions

THIRD SCHEDULE

ACTS REPEALED SO FAR AS ENTITLING PERSONS TO PLEAD GENERAL ISSUE IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS