The Statute Law Revision Act 2015 is a

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enacted by the

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to review secondary legislation (mainly proclamations and orders) passed from 1066 to 1820. The Act revoked a large number of pieces of secondary legislation of

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and the

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while preserving a shorter list of instruments that were deemed suitable for retention. The Act is part of the Statute Law Revision Programme which has also seen the enactment of statute law revision legislation between 2005 and 2016. The Act also amended the Statutory Instruments Act 1947 to remove most exemptions from the requirement to publish statutory instruments.

Scope

The Act preserved a total of 43 pre-1821 instruments, while revoking 5,782 explicitly and around 7,000 implicitly.

References

External links

The Statute Law Revision Act 2015
from the Irish Statute Book. 2015 in Irish law Acts of the Oireachtas of the 2010s Legal history of Ireland Statute Law Revision 2015 {{Ireland-law-stub