Statute Law Revision Act 1960

An Act to revise the law by repealing obsolete, spent or unnecessary enactments. [29th July, 1960]

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, spent or unnecessary enactments.

1.-(1) The Acts specified in the first and second columns of the Schedule to this Act (which to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule are obsolete, spent or unnecessary) are hereby repealed to that extent. (2) The repeal by this section of sections nine and ten of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1871, shall not affect the operation of subsection (2) of section six of the Railway Companies (Accounts and Returns) Act, 1911 (which exempts from the obligations imposed by that Act railway companies which, by virtue of special Acts, are exempted from the operation of the said sections nine and ten).

Saving for powers of Parliament of Northern Ireland.

2. 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.

3. This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act, 1960.

SCHEDULE

ENACTMENTS REPEALED

Road and Rail Transport Enactments