UKPGA-1998-43 — Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998

preamble

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:—

s. 1 — Repeals and associated provisions.

s. 1(1)

The enactments mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act are repealed, and the instruments mentioned there are revoked, to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

s. 1(2)

Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect.

s. 2 — Extent.

s. 2(1)

This Act extends to Northern Ireland.

s. 2(2)

This Act also extends to the Isle of Man.

s. 2(3)

The repeal by this Act of—shall come into force on such day as Her Majesty may appoint by Order in Council.

s. 2(3)(a)

the Public Notaries Act 1843 as it applies to the Isle of Man, and

s. 2(3)(b)

the words “the Isle of Man,” in section 3(3) of the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993,

s. 2(4)

Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide—

s. 2(4)(a)

that the repeal by this Act of any enactment specified in the Order shall on a date so specified extend to any of the Channel Islands or any colony, and

s. 2(4)(b)

that any provision of Schedule 2 specified in the Order shall on a date so specified extend to any of the Channel Islands or any colony subject to any modification so specified.

s. 2(5)

Except as provided by any order under subsection (4), this Act does not repeal or amend any enactment so far as the enactment forms part of the law of a country outside the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.

s. 2(6)

Subsections (4) and (5) apply to revocation of the whole or part of an instrument as they apply to repeal of an enactment.

s. 3 — Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998.

Sch 1

Repeals

Sch 1

Administration of Justice

Sch 1

Ecclesiastical Law

Sch 1

Education

Sch 1

Finance

Sch 1

Hereford and Worcester

Sch 1

Inclosure Acts

Sch 1

Scottish Local Acts

Sch 1

Slave Trade Acts

Sch 1

Statutes

Sch 1

Miscellaneous

Sch 2

Consequential and Connected Provisions

Slave Trade Act 1824 (c.113)

Sch 2 para 1

In section 10 of the Slave Trade Act 1824 (persons dealing in slaves) except as it applies to Northern Ireland, for the words from “and are hereby declared” to the end substitute “ guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years ”.

Sch 2 para 2

In section 11 of the Slave Trade Act 1824 (seamen etc, guilty of misdemeanour) for the words “and they are hereby declared to be guilty of a misdemeanour only” substitute “ guilty of an offence ”.

Metropolitan Police Act 1839 (c.47)

Sch 2 para 3

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Public Schools Act 1868 (c.118)

Sch 2 para 4

Before section 5 of the Public Schools Act 1868 there shall be inserted the following section—

Sch 2 para 5

Section 27 of the Public Schools Act 1868 (saving for rights of dean and chapter of Westminster) shall continue to have effect with the substitution of “ a part of ” for “apart from” (an amendment made by section 3 of the Public Schools Act 1869).

Slave Trade Act 1873 (c.88)

Sch 2 para 6

In section 3 of the Slave Trade Act 1873, for the words “British possession” substitute “ colony ”.

Colonial Stock Acts 1877 (c.59) and 1892 (c.35)

Sch 2 para 7

The repeal by this Act of the Colonial Stock Act 1877 and the Colonial Stock Act 1892 shall not affect the continued operation of those Acts in relation to any unredeemed stock which immediately before the commencement of this Act was recorded by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in accordance with section 1 of the Colonial Stock Act 1877 (registration of colonial stock with Commissioners of Inland Revenue).

Sea Fisheries Act 1883 (c.22)

Sch 2 para 8

The repeal by this Act of the Sea Fisheries Act 1883 shall not affect the operation—

Sch 2 para 8(a)

of any Order in Council under section 23 of that Act which is in force immediately before the coming into force of the repeal; or

Sch 2 para 8(b)

of any provision of that Act which is applied by any such Order or by any provision of the Fisheries Act 1891 or the North Sea Fisheries Act 1893.

Fisheries Act 1891 (c.37)

Sch 2 para 9

In section 6 of the Fisheries Act 1891 (construction, title and commencement of Part I of that Act), for subsection (3) substitute—.

Finance Act 1931 (c.28)

Sch 2 para 10

In the Finance Act 1931, for Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the following Schedule (which reproduces the effect which that Schedule and section 28(6) had immediately before the coming into force of this Act)—