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Number 11 of 1983


STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1983


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Repeals.

2.

Saving.

3.

Short title.

SCHEDULE

REPEALS

PART I

Pre-Union Irish Statutes

PART II

English Statutes Applied by Poynings' Act, 1495

PART III

English and British Statutes Extended to Ireland, 1495-1800

PART IV

British Statutes, 1801-1922


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Number 11 of 1983


STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT, 1983


AN ACT TO PROMOTE THE REVISION OF THE STATUTE LAW BY REPEALING ENACTMENTS WHICH HAVE CEASED TO BE IN FORCE OR HAVE BECOME UNNECESSARY. [16th May, 1983]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Repeals.

1. —The enactments of former Parliaments of Ireland, England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom described in the Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column.

Saving.

2. —(1) This Act shall not affect any existing principle or rule of law or equity, or any established jurisdiction, form or course of pleading, practice or procedure, notwithstanding that it may have been in any manner derived from, affirmed or recognised by any enactment hereby repealed.

(2) Where any enactment not repealed by this Act has been confirmed, revived or perpetuated by an enactment hereby repealed, such confirmation, revivor or perpetuation shall not be affected by the repeal.

Short title.

3. —This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act, 1983.