Repeal of Obsolete Statutes Act 1856

Repeal of Obsolete Statutes Act 1856

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to repeal certain Statutes which are not in use.
Citation	19 & 20 Vict. c. 64
Introduced by	Peter Locke King MP (Commons) Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue (Lords)
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	21 July 1856
Commencement	21 July 1856[a]
Repealed	11 August 1875
Other legislation
Repeals/revokes	See § Repealed acts
Amended by	See § Repealed acts
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1875
Relates to	Statute Law Revision Act 1861 Statute Law Revision Act 1863 Statute Law Revision Act 1867 Statute Law Revision Act 1870 Statute Law Revision Act 1871 Statute Law Revision Act 1872 Statute Law Revision Act 1872 (No. 2) Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872 Statute Law Revision Act 1873 Statute Law Revision Act 1874 Statute Law Revision Act 1874 (No. 2) Statute Law Revision Act 1875 Statute Law Revision (Substituted Enactments) Act 1876 Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1878 Statute Law Revision Act 1878 Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1879 Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act 1879 Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1881 Statute Law Revision Act 1883 Statute Law Revision Act 1887 Statute Law Revision Act 1888 Statute Law Revision Act 1890 Statute Law Revision Act 1891 Statute Law Revision Act 1892 Statute Law Revision Act 1893 Statute Law Revision Act 1894 Statute Law Revision Act 1898
Status: Repealed
History of passage through Parliament
Records of Parliamentary debate relating to the statute from Hansard
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Repeal of Obsolete Statutes Act 1856^[1][2] (19 & 20 Vict. c. 64), also known as the Statute Law Revision Act 1856, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed for the United Kingdom statutes from 1285 to 1777 which had ceased to be in force or had become necessary.

Halsbury's Laws labelled this act as the first act for statute law revision (in the sense of repealing enactments which are obsolete, spent, unnecessary or superseded, or which no longer serve a useful purpose).^[3] Courtenay Ilbert described this act as the first Statute Law Revision Act.^[4]

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