Statute Law Revision Act, 1870

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT 1870

CHAP. 69.

An Act for further promoting the revision of the Statute Law by repealing certain enactments that have ceased to be in force or are consolidated by certain Acts of the present Session. [9th August 1870.]

Whereas the enactments described in the schedule to this Act have ceased to be in force, or on the commencement of Acts of the present session relating to the National Debt and to Forgery will cease to be in force, and, with a view to the revision of the Statute Law, and particularly to the preparation of the revised edition of the Statutes now in progress, it is expedient that the same enactments be expressly repealed :

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 :