Statute Law Revision Act 1878

Statute Law Revision Act 1878^[1]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing certain Enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary.
Citation	41 & 42 Vict. c. 79
Dates
Royal assent	16 August 1878
Commencement	16 August 1878[2]
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Statute Law Revision Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 79) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

This Act was repealed for the United Kingdom by Group 1 of Part IX of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998.

This Act was retained for the Republic of Ireland by section 2(2)(a) of, and Part 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007.

Section 2 of this Act revived Acts repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1873 and the Statute Law Revision Act 1875. Section 3 of this Act amended the second of those Acts.

Sections 2 and 3 of, and the Schedules to, this Act, were repealed by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict c 56).

• Statute Law Revision Act

• Halsbury's Statutes,
• The Public General Statutes passed in the forty-first & forty-second years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1878. Queen's Printer. East Harding Street, London. 1878. Pages 651 to 661.

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