Statute Law Revision Act 1959

An Act to revise the statute law by repealing obsolete, spent, unnecessary or superseded enactments. [29th July, 1959]

BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 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The Acts specified in the First Schedule to this Act (being Acts which are obsolete, spent or unnecessary or have been superseded by other enactments) are hereby repealed.

Repeal of obsolete, &c., provisions in miscellaneous branches of the law.

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Act (which to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule are obsolete, spent or unnecessary or have been superseded by other enactments) are hereby repealed to that extent.

Saving for powers of Parliament of Northern Ireland.

3. In its application to Northern Ireland this Act shall, as respects matters within the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, be subject to alteration by that Parliament as if it had been an Act passed before the day appointed for the purposes of section six of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920.

Short title.

4. This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act, 1959.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

OBSOLETE, &C., ACTS REPEALED

SECOND SCHEDULE

REPEAL OF OBSOLETE, &C., PROVISIONS IN MISCELLANEOUS BRANCHES OF LAW

Army (Prize and Savings Bank) Provisions

Colonial and other Loans Provisions

Legal Procedure Provisions

Local Government Provisions

National Debt Provisions

Purchase Tax Provisions

Road and Rail Transport Provisions