Statute Law Revision Act 1960

An Act to revise the law by repealing obsolete, spent or unnecessary enactments. [29th July, 1960]

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:-

Repeal of obsolete, spent or unnecessary enactments.

1.-(1) The Acts specified in the first and second columns of the Schedule to this Act (which to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule are obsolete, spent or unnecessary) are hereby repealed to that extent.
(2) The repeal by this section of sections nine and ten of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1871, shall not affect the operation of subsection (2) of section six of the Railway Companies (Accounts and Returns) Act, 1911 (which exempts from the obligations imposed by that Act railway companies which, by virtue of special Acts, are exempted from the operation of the said sections nine and ten).

Saving for powers of Parliament of Northern Ireland.

2. In its application to Northern Ireland this Act shall, as respects matters within the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, be subject to alteration by that Parliament as if it had been an Act passed before the day appointed for the purposes of section six of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920.

Short title.

3. This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act, 1960.

SCHEDULE

ENACTMENTS REPEALED

Road and Rail Transport Enactments

Session and Chapter	Short Title	Extent of Repeal
7 & 8 Vict. c. 85.	The Railway Regulation Act, 1844.	Sections two to ten and twelve.
8 & 9 Vict. c. 20.	The Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845.	Sections twenty-five to twenty-nine.
		Sections sixty-three and sixty-four.
21 & 22 Vict. c. 75.	The Cheap Trains and Canal Carriers Act, 1858.	The whole Act.
27 & 28 Vict. c. 120.	The Railway Companies' Powers Act, 1864.	The whole Act.
27 & 28 Vict. c. 121.	The Railways Construction Facilities Act, 1864.	The whole Act.
31 & 32 Vict. c. 119.	The Regulation of Railways Act, 1868.	Section thirty-eight.
34 & 35 Vict. c. 78.	The Regulation of Railways Act, 1871.	Sections nine and ten.
		Schedule One.
36 & 37 Vict. c. 48.	The Regulation of Railways Act, 1873.	In section six, the words "of of section sixteen of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1868".
		Sections fifteen and sixteen.
36 & 37 Vict. c. 76.	The Railway Regulation Act (Returns of Signal Arrangements, Workings, &c.), 1873.	Section four and the Schedules.
41 & 42 Vict. c. 20.	The Railway Returns (Continuous Brakes) Act, 1878.	The whole Act.
51 & 52 Vict. c. 25.	The Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888.	Sections thirty-two and forty-two.
56 & 57 Vict. c. 29.	The Railway Regulation Act, 1893.	The whole Act.
59 & 60 Vict. c. 48.	The Light Railways Act, 1896.	In section eleven, paragraph (j).
		In the Second Schedule, the entries relating to the Railway Regulation (Gauge) Act, 1846, the Regulation of Railways Act, 1871, and the Railway Returns (Continuous Brakes) Act, 1878, in the entry relating to the Railway Regulation Act, 1842, the words "four, five, six", in the entry relating to the Regulation of Railways Act, 1868, the word "twenty", and in the entry relating to the Railway Regulation Act (Returns of Signal Arrangements, Workings, &c.), 1873, the words "four and".