STATUTE LAW REVISION: SIXTEENTH ... - Law Commission

Statute Law (Repeals) 1
DRAFT
OF A
B I L L
INTITULED
An Act to promote the reform of the statute law by the repeal, in A.D. 1998.
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.
BE ITENACTED 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:-—
5 1.—(1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act are repealed, Repeals and
and the instruments mentioned there are revoked, to the extent specified in
the third column of that Schedule.
(2) Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect.
associated
provisions.
2.—(1) This Act extends to Northern Ireland. Extent.
10 (2) This Act also extends to the Isle of Man.
(3) The repeal by this Act of—
(a) the Public Notaries Act 1843 as it applies to the Isle of Man, and
(b) the words ‘the Isle of Man,’ in section 3(3) of the Statute Law
(Repeals) Act 1993,
15 shall come into force on such day as Her Majesty may appoint by Order in
Council.
(4) 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
20 any colony, 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
colony subject to any modification so specified.