Statute Law Revision Act 1950
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing Enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary and for facilitating the publication of Revised Editions of the Statutes. |
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| Citation | 14 Geo. 6. c. 6 |
| Territorial extent | United Kingdom |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 23 May 1950 |
| Commencement | 23 May 1950[b] |
| Other legislation | |
| Amended by | |
Status: Amended | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (14 Geo. 6. c. 6) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
This act was partly in force in Great Britain at the end of 2010.[1]
The enactments which were repealed (whether for the whole or any part of the United Kingdom) by this act were repealed so far as they extended to the Isle of Man[2] on 25 July 1991.[3]
Section 1 of the act detailed how the act would function, and what it did or did not apply to. Some of the provisions were that the act did not affect hereditary Royal revenues (Subsection 1, paragraph 5)[4], and that the act did not apply retrospectively (Subsection 1, paragraph 6).[5]
Section 1 of the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1953.
Section 2
The words "to the court of the county palatine of Lancaster or" in section 2 of the act were repealed by section 56(4) of, and Part II of schedule 11 to, the Courts Act 1971. This section was repealed by section 32(4) of, and Part V of schedule 5 to, the Administration of Justice Act 1977.
Section 3
Section 3(1) of the act from "the Union" to "Ceylon" and the word "Burma" was repealed by Group 1 of Part XVI of schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993.
Section 3(2) of the act was repealed by Group 1 of Part IX of schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998.
Section 4
Section 4 of the act reads "In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression “enactment” includes an enactment comprised in Church Assembly Measure."[6]
This meant that the act, and the provisions of it, such as the repeal of a previous act, also applied to the acts of the Church Assembly, since changes to church governance or practice had to be done by an act of parliament due to the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919.
Section 5
Section 5(3) was repealed by Group 1 of Part XVI of schedule 1 the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993.
Section 5(4) was repealed by section 41(1) of, and Part I of schedule 6 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973.
First Schedule
The first schedule to the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the first schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1953.
Section 3 of the Statute Law Revision Act 1953 provides that the sections specified in the first column of the Fourth Schedule to that Act have effect, and are deemed always to have had effect, as if the references in this Schedule, to the words and subsection respectively referred of those sections which are specified in the second column of the Fourth Schedule to that Act had been omitted from this Act.
Second schedule
The second schedule to the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the first schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1953.
Third schedule
The third schedule to the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the first schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1953.
