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An Act to promote the reform of the statute law by the repeal, in 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.
[16th November 1989]
BE IT ENACTED 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:—
(1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(2) Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect.
(1) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.
(2) Any repeal by this Act of an enactment which extends to the Isle of Man shall also extend there.
(3) Subject to subsection (2) above, this Act does not repeal any enactment so far as the enactment forms part of the law of a country outside the United Kingdom; but Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide 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 any colony.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989.
(2) The repeal by this Act of—
(a) section 3 of the [1957 c. 60.] Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957, and
(b) section 5 of the Malaysia Act 1963,
shall come into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.
Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989