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. The act was continued until the end of the next parliamentary session by the Continuance of Laws, etc. Act 1623 ( 21 Jas. 1. c. 28). The words "This Act to contynue to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and noe longer" at the end of the act were repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the

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( 26 & 27 Vict. c. 125). The footnote to this repeal says that these words are from section 3 in

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.Rickards, G K. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 26 & 27 Victoria, 1863
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In section 1, the words of commencement, and the words "hereafter to be" wherever occurring, were repealed by section 1 of, and schedule 1 to, the

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( 11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 62). The whole act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 1 of, and Part VII of the Schedule to, the

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(c. 52).

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