Statute Law Revision Act - United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Statute Law Revision Bills must be referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation etc. Bills. The scope of Statute Law Revision Bills is confined to the repeal of obsolete, spent, unnecessary or superseded enactments.

Halsbury's Laws said that Statute Law Revision Acts are law reform Acts.

The Statute Law Committee prepared the Bills for Statute Law Revision Acts up to, and including, the Statute Law Revision Act 1966.

The following list includes any Act the short title of which includes the words "statute law revision", without prejudice to suggestions that some of these Acts are not actually Statute Law Revision Acts.

  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 101)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 125)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 69)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 116)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 63)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1872 (No. 2) (35 & 36 Vict. c. 97)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 91)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 35)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1874 (No. 2) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 96)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 66)
  • The Statute Law Revision (Substituted Enactments) Act 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 20)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 79)
  • The Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 59)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 39)
  • The Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 49)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 59)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 3)
  • The Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 57)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 33)
  • The Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 51)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 67)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 19)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 14)
  • The Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 54)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 56)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 22)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7 c. 49)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5 c. 42)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6 c. 62)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (14 Geo. 6 c. 6)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2 c. 5)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2 c. 46)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2 c. 68)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2 c. 56)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1963 (c. 30)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1964 (c. 79)
  • The Statute Law Revision (Consequential Repeals) Act 1965 (c. 55)
  • The Statute Law Revision Act 1966 (c. 5)

Courtenay Ilbert said that the 19 & 20 Vict c 64 was the first Statute Law Revision Act.

The Promissory Oaths Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict c 48), the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act 1879 (42 & 43 Vict c 59) and the Master and Servant Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict c 24) were expressed by their preambles to be passed for the purpose of statute law revision.

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