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STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952 - LONG TITLE

An Act to authorise and facilitate the publication of a revised
edition of the statutes affecting Northern Ireland, and to promote
further the revision of the statute law by repealing enactments
which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary, and
for purposes connected with those matters.
[11th February 1952]
1950 c.6

And Whereas it is expedient to authorise the publication of a
revised edition of the statutes affecting Northern Ireland:

And Whereas it is expedient that certain enactments which may be
regarded as spent, or have ceased to be in force otherwise than by
express specific repeal or have, by lapse of time or otherwise,
become unnecessary, should be expressly and specifically repealed:

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952 - SECT 1
Authorisation of publication of Revised Statutes, Northern Ireland.

1.(1) The Ministry of Finance may cause to be prepared a revised
edition of the statutes affecting Northern Ireland (in this Act
referred to as "the Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland") and such
edition shall be printed and published in accordance with the
directions of the Ministry by the Queen's printer for Northern
Ireland.

(2) Any expenses incurred by the said Ministry in connection with
the publication of the Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland, shall be
defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952 - SECT 2
Omission of parts of title, preamble or recital.

2. In the Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland, every part of a
title, preamble or recital specified after the words "in part,
namely," in connection with an Act mentioned in the Schedule to
this Act, or in a Schedule to any Statute Law Revision Act being
a Schedule which specifies enactments thereby repealed and applies to
Northern Ireland, may be omitted, and there may be added in the
Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland, such brief statement of the Acts,
officers, persons, and things mentioned in the title, preamble or
recital as may in consequence of such omission appear necessary.

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952 - SECT 3
Omission of enacting and other words.

3. So much of the provisons of any Statute Law Revision Act
applicable in Northern Ireland as authorises the omission of any
enactment or enacting or other words, other than such words as are
referred to in the last preceding section, shall apply to the
Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland, so, however, that, without
prejudice to any other saving contained in this Act, an omission
made under the authority of this section shall not affect the
construction or interpretation of any statute.

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952 - SECT 4
Substitution of short titles.

4. Where any Act included in the Statutes Revised, Northern Ireland,
cites or refers to another Act otherwise than by its short title,
the short title may be printed in the Statutes Revised, Northern
Ireland, in substitution for such citation or reference.

S.5, with Schedule, effects repeals with savings

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952 - SECT 6
Short title and citation.

6. This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act (Northern
Ireland), 1952.

Schedule rep. by SLR 1973