Statute Law Revision Act (Northern Ireland) 1952

1952 CHAPTER 1

An Act to authorise and facilitate the publication of a revised edition of the statutes affecting Northern Ireland, and to promote further the revision of the statute law by repealing enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary, and for purposes connected with those matters.

[11th February 1952]

WHEREAS the Statute Law Revision Act, 1950 M1 , made provision for the authorisation of measures expedient in connection with the publication of any revised edition of the statutes affecting Northern Ireland, in so far as those measures required authorisation by an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as affecting matters not within the power of the Parliament of Northern Ireland:

Marginal Citations

M1 1950 c. 6

And Whereas it is expedient to authorise the publication of a revised edition of the statutes affecting Northern Ireland:

And Whereas it is expedient that certain enactments which may be regarded as spent, or have ceased to be in force otherwise than by express specific repeal or have, by lapse of time or otherwise, become unnecessary, should be expressly and specifically repealed:

1 Authorisation of publication of Revised Statutes, Northern Ireland. N.I.

(1) The Ministry of Finance may cause to be prepared a revised edition of the statutes affecting Northern Ireland (in this Act referred to as “the Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland”) and such edition shall be printed and published in accordance with the directions of the Ministry by the Queen's printer for Northern Ireland.

(2) Any expenses incurred by the said Ministry in connection with the publication of the Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland, shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

2 Omission of parts of title, preamble or recital. N.I.

In the Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland, every part of a title, preamble or recital specified after the words “in part, namely,” in connection with an Act mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, or in a Schedule to any Statute Law Revision Act being a Schedule which specifies enactments thereby repealed and applies to Northern Ireland, may be omitted, and there may be added in the Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland, such brief statement of the Acts, officers, persons, and things mentioned in the title, preamble or recital as may in consequence of such omission appear necessary.

3 Omission of enacting and other words. N.I.

So much of the provisons of any Statute Law Revision Act applicable in Northern Ireland as authorises the omission of any enactment or enacting or other words, other than such words as are referred to in the last preceding section, shall apply to the Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland, so, however, that, without prejudice to any other saving contained in this Act, an omission made under the authority of this section shall not affect the construction or interpretation of any statute.

4 Substitution of short titles. N.I.

Where any Act included in the Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland, cites or refers to another Act otherwise than by its short title, the short title may be printed in the Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland, in substitution for such citation or reference.

S. 5, with Schedule, effects repeals with savings

6 Short title and citation. N.I.

This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act (Northern Ireland), 1952.

Prospective

N.I.

Schedule rep. by SLR 1973