Statute Law Revision Bill 2012
Public bill · Government · Presented
The Statute Law Revision Bill 2012 would remove thousands of obsolete or unnecessary laws made before Irish independence, mainly private, local and personal Acts from 1751–1922. It would preserve 796 Acts considered still relevant, protect existing rights and obligations, clarify which old laws remain in force, and give some surviving Acts clearer short titles. Together with the 2007 and 2009 Acts, it would make Ireland’s pre-independence statute book much clearer and easier to use, without imposing Exchequer costs.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to promote the revision of statue law by repealing all statutes that were enacted before 6 December 1922 other than the statutes not repealed by this Act, or the statutes not repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 2007 or the Statute Law Revision Act 2009 and that were not subsequently repealed before the passing of this Act, and for that purpose to repeal certain statutes of a specified series that were enacted on or after 1 January 1751 and before 6 December 1922 and certain other statutes of another specified series that were enacted on or after 1 January 1851 and before 6 December 1922 and which have ceased to have effect or have become unnecessary, to identify the statutes of those series that are not being repealed by this Act, to assign short titles to certain statutes in order to facilitate their citation and to amend certain statutes in so far as they relate to short titles, to amend the Adaptation of Enactments Act 1922 and to provide for related matters
Last updated 12 April 2018
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