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An Act to promote the reform of the statute law by the repeal, in accordance with recommendations of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission, of certain enactments which (except in so far as their effect is preserved) are no longer of practical utility, and to make other provision in connection with the repeal of those enactments.
[22nd July 2004]
Be it 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:—
(1) The enactments referred to in Schedule 1 are repealed, and the instruments referred to there are revoked, to the extent specified in the second column of that Schedule.
(2) Schedule 2 (consequential and connected provisions) has effect.
(3) In determining for the purposes of section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 (c. 6) (power by order to make provision reforming law which imposes burdens) whether any provision of an Act falls within subsection (4)(a) of that section (provision amended by an Act within previous two years), the effect of this Act is to be disregarded.
(1) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.
(2) This Act also extends to the Isle of Man.
(3) Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide—
(a) that the repeal by this Act of any enactment specified in the Order shall on a date so specified extend to any of the Channel Islands or any British overseas territory, and
(b) that any provision of Schedule 2 specified in the Order shall on a date so specified extend to any of the Channel Islands or any British overseas territory subject to any modification so specified.
(4) Except as provided by an order under subsection (3), this Act does not repeal or amend any enactment so far as the enactment forms part of the law of a country outside the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.
(5) Subsections (3) and (4) apply to revocation of the whole or part of an instrument as they apply to repeal of an enactment.
This Act may be cited as the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004.
Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004