Statute Law Revision Act is a stock short title

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 which was formerly used, in the United Kingdom

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 and Canada

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, and is still used in Australia

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 and in the Republic of Ireland

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, for legislation

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 whose sole purpose was to repeal obsolete enactments. In the United Kingdom, the short title Statute Law (Repeals) Act

Statute Law (Repeals) Act

Statute Law Act is a stock short title which is used, in the United Kingdom, for legislation whose sole purpose was to repeal obsolete enactments. The short title Statute Law Revision Act was formerly used for this type of statute. These Acts are drafted by the Law CommissionStatute Law Acts may...

 is now used instead.

Statute Law Revision Acts may collectively refer to enactments with this short title. It is not a term of art.

United Kingdom

• 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 (No. 2) Act 1874 (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
  Statute Law Revision Act 1948
  The Statute Law Revision Act 1948 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.Section 5 and Schedule 2 authorised the citation of 158 earlier Acts by short titles....
  
   (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)

Scotland

• The Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1906 (6 Edw. 7 c. 38)
• The Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1964
  Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1964
  The Statute Law Revision Act 1964 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland....
  
   (c. 80)

Ireland

(also see Republic of Ireland below)

• The Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 98)
• The Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 57)
• The Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 24)

Northern Ireland

• The Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1952 (c. 1) (N.I.)
• The Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1953 (c. 1) (N.I.)
• The Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1954 (c. 35) (N.I.)
• The Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1973 (c. 55)
• The Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1976 (c. 12)
• The Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 59)

Isle of Man

The following Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom repealed British legislation extending to the Isle of Man:

• The Statute Law Revision (Isle of Man) Act 1991 (c. 61)

Republic of Ireland

• The Fisheries (Statute Law Revision) Act 1949 (No.27)
• The Fisheries (Statute Law Revision) Act 1956 (No.28)
• The Statute Law Revision (Pre-Union Irish Statutes) Act 1962 (No.29)
• The Statute Law Revision Act 1983 (No.11)
• The Statute Law Revision (pre-1922) Act 2005 (No.32)
• The Statute Law Revision Act 2007
  Statute Law Revision Act 2007
  The Statute Law Revision Act 2007 was an Act of the Oireachtas of the Republic of Ireland which repealed a large amount of pre-1922 legislation of Ireland, England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom while preserving a shorter list of statutes.-Scope:...
  
   (No.28)
• The Statute Law Revision Act 2009
  Statute Law Revision Act 2009
  The Statute Law Revision Act 2009 is a Statute Law Revision Act enacted by the Oireachtas in Ireland to review Local and Personal Acts passed prior to 1850 and Private Acts passed prior to 1750...
  
  

Federal legislation

• The Statute Law Revision Act 1996
• The Statute Law Revision Act 2002
• The Statute Law Revision Act 2006
• The Statute Law Revision Act 2007

See also

• List of short titles
• Desuetude
  Desuetude
  In law, desuetude is a doctrine that causes statutes, similar legislation or legal principles to lapse and become unenforceable by a long habit of non-enforcement or lapse of time. It is what happens to laws that are not repealed when they become obsolete...