STATUTE LAW REVISION: SIXTEENTH ... - Law Commission

7.5 The trawl mentioned above graphically demonstrated in print the fact that many
Provisional Orders within Confirmation Acts had been repealed, while the shells
of those Confirmation Acts had themselves been left intact. These shells were of
no practical use and hence an additional category of Order Confirmation Acts
was identified and examined.
All the listed Acts in the Oyster and Mussel Fisheries category had explicit expiry dates and
therefore were obvious candidates for explicit repeal.
7.6 A further category comprised a miscellaneous assortment of redundant Local
Scottish Acts which came to the Commission’s attention simply because, for
library purposes, a member of staff was checking the scope of all Scottish Local
Acts enacted between 1930 and 1990, and incidentally identified possible
candidates for repeal.
55 Group 1 - Aid to the Poor, Charities and Private Pensions
56 Edinburgh Poor Relief Act 1800
57 Writers to the Signet Widows' Fund Act 1803
58 Excise Incorporation in Scotland Act 1805
59 Writers to the Signet Widows' Fund Act 1818
60 Faculty of Procurators of Glasgow Widows Fund Act 1833
61 Glasgow Poor Act 1840
62 Edinburgh Charity Workhouse Act 1844
63 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Widows Fund) Act 1860
64 Glasgow Faculty of Procurators Widows Fund Act 1875
65 Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow Widows Fund Act 1880
66 Ayr Faculty of Solicitors Widows' Fund Society Act 1895
67 St Andrew's Ambulance Association Order Confirmation Act 1911
68 Scottish Episcopal Clergy Widows' and Orphans' Fund Order Confirmation Act
1989
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Zetland Masonic Sick and Widows and Orphans Fund Order Confirmation Act
1990
7.1 The Acts in this group fall into three categories, the largest relating to Private
Pension Funds. In most cases these named Funds for various reasons became
impractical to administer and arrangements were made by statute to transfer
outstanding contingent liabilities to Insurance Companies or to transfer the
assets to another Fund for future administration, and then to dissolve the earlier
Fund. In a few cases the Private Pension Acts being recommended for repeal
were enacted to make changes in the administration of or terms of benefit
awarded from the appropriate Pension Fund and are now spent.
There are also three Acts relating to Municipal Aid to the Poor in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
One Act had an explicit expiry date and the other two have long since been
superseded by Public General legislation.
7.2 There is also one Act relating to a Charity - or rather the dealings between two
Charities, namely the St Andrew's Ambulance Association and the Scottish
Branch of the British Red Cross. The Act in question regulates the transfer of
funds from the first named to the other. The St Andrew's Ambulance Association
acted as agent for the British Red Cross in Scotland before its Scottish Branch
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