Statute Law Revision Act 1888
STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1888 | ||
CHAPTER 3. | ||
An Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing superfluous expressions of enactment, and enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary. [27th March 1888.] | ||
WHEREAS in numerous statutes the expression “be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,” or similar expressions of enactment, are frequently repeated, and it is expedient, with a view to the revision of the Statute Law, and particularly to the improvement of the Revised Edition of the Statutes, to repeal these expressions, which are superfluous; | ||
And whereas it is expedient that certain enactments which may be regarded as spent, or have ceased to be in force otherwise than by express specific repeal by Parliament, or by lapse of time or otherwise have become unnecessary, should be expressly and specifically repealed: | ||
And whereas the Crown Office Rules, 1886, regulate proceedings in outlawry in the Crown Office of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice, and it is expedient that like rules be made for regulating proceedings in outlawry in courts of assize, oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery, and in other courts in England: | ||
Be it therefore 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: |