The Statute Law Revision Programme is a project of the Law Reform Commission responsible for the preparation of

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Bills in

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. The Programme, previously known as the Statute law revision project, operated in the office of the Attorney General from 2003 to 2012 and in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform from 2012 to 2016. Its operation was taken over by the Law Reform Commission in 2020. The great majority of the legislation repealed have been

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passed by the

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and its predecessors. While introducing the most recent measure in 2016, Minister

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stated that "To date, over 60,000 items of legislation have been either expressly or implicitly repealed under the programme. This Bill, when enacted, together with the five previous Statute Law Revision Acts, will collectively be the most extensive set of repealing measures in the history of the State and the most extensive set of statute law revision measures ever enacted anywhere in the world." The legislation taken as a whole has comprehensively reviewed primary legislation up to 1950 and secondary legislation up to 1820.

Legislation enacted

To date six pieces of legislation have been prepared under the Programme and its predecessor initiatives: *

Statute Law Revision (Pre-1922) Act 2005 The Statute Law Revision (Pre-1922) Act 2005 (No. 32 of 2005) is an Act of the Oireachtas. Section 1 of the Act, with the Schedule, repeals statutes of Ireland, England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Act r ...

Statute Law Revision Act 2007 The Statute Law Revision Act 2007 is an Act of the Oireachtas of Ireland which repealed a large amount of pre-1922 legislation of Ireland, England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom while preserving a shorter list of statutes. The Act was t ...

* Statute Law Revision Act 2009 *

Statute Law Revision Act 2012 The Statute Law Revision Act 2012 (No 19) is a Statute Law Revision Act enacted by the Oireachtas in Ireland to review Local and Personal Acts passed from 1851 to 1922 and Private Acts passed from 1751 to 1922. The Act repealed a large number of p ...

* Statute Law Revision Act 2015 *

Statute Law Revision Act 2016 The Statute Law Revision Act 2016 is a Statute Law Revision Act enacted by the Oireachtas in Ireland to review Acts of the Oireachtas passed from 1922 to 1950. It also amended the Statute Law Revision Act 2007 The Statute Law Revision Act 2 ...

Areas yet to be reviewed

By 2022, the programme to date is expected to complete review of the following areas of legislative material: * Secondary legislation 1821 to date * Primary legislation 1951 to date * Charters and letters patent 1066 to date

References

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External links

Statute Law Revision Programme
at Law Reform Commission website Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation Programme