STATUTE LAW (REPEALS) BILL - Law Commission

held to hear the views of such owners and occupiers. 7 If, after the local
inquiry had been held, the Secretary of State was satisfied that the land ought
to be taken, he could make a provisional order to that effect and submit a Bill
to Parliament for the confirmation of that order. Until confirmed by Parliament,
the order had no effect. 8 Unless the confirming Act provided otherwise, the
land had to be purchased within 3 years of the passing of the Act. 9 None of
the confirming Acts proposed for repeal in this note provided otherwise.
4. Because none of the Acts contained any provisions of a continuing
nature, each Act became spent once the relevant land purchase had been
completed or, if sooner, once 3 years had elapsed from the passing of the
Act. Each Act is accordingly now proposed for repeal on the basis that it is
spent.
5. The Acts proposed for repeal are broadly similar in format. The
Schedule to each contains the relevant provisional orders and details of the
land to be purchased. One of the Acts is attached to this note as an example.
Each Act is described in the following paragraphs. The names of the
provisional order or orders that each confirms appear in italics. Several of the
Acts relate to land that was formerly part of the United Kingdom but is now
within the Republic of Ireland. 10
Military Lands Provisional Orders Confirmation Act 1893
6. The provisional orders confirmed by this Act related to the purchase by
the Secretary of State of land-
(a) for the improvement of Buttevant Barracks in the county of Cork
(Buttevant Barracks Enlargement Order 1893)
7 The 1892 Act, s 2(5) to (7).
8 The 1892 Act, s 2(9).
9 Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, s 123, by virtue of the Military Lands Act 1900, s 4.
10 Statute Law (Repeals) Acts do 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. Accordingly the repeal of an Act
that relates to land formerly within the United Kingdom but now within the Republic of Ireland will have
no effect on the law of the Republic of Ireland. Such a repeal merely causes the relevant Act to cease to
exist within the United Kingdom.
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