Continuance of Laws etc., Act 1754
The Continuance of Laws etc., Act 1754 (27 Geo. 2. c. 18) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that continued various older acts.
Background
[edit]In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliament remain in force until expressly repealed. Many acts of parliament, however, contained time-limited sunset clauses, requiring legislation to revive enactments that had expired or to continue enactments that would otherwise expire.[1]
Provisions
[edit]Continued enactments
[edit]Section 1 of the act continued the Importation Act 1738 (12 Geo. 2. c. 36) "as relates to the prohibiting the importation of books reprinted abroad, and first composed or written and printed in Great Britain", as continued by the Continuance of Laws Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 47), from the expiration of those enactments until the end of the next session of parliament after 29 September 1760.[2]
Section 2 of the act continued the Importation Act 1733 (7 Geo. 2. c. 18), as continued by the Continuance of Laws Act 1740 (14 Geo. 2. c. 34) and the Continuance of Laws Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 47), from the expiration of the act until the end of the next session of parliament after 29 September 1760.[2]
Section 3 of the act continued the Colonial Trade Act 1729 (3 Geo. 2. c. 28), as continued by the Colonial Trade Act 1734 (8 Geo. 2. c. 19), the Starr and Bent Act 1741 (15 Geo. 2. c. 33) and the Continuance of Laws Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 47), from the expiration of the act to the end of the next session of parliament after 29 September 1760.[2]
Section 4 of the act continued certain clauses of the Adulteration of Coffee Act 1718 (5 Geo. 1. c. 11), as continued by the Continuance of Laws Act 1722 (9 Geo. 1. c. 8), the Unlawful Games Act 1728 (2 Geo. 2. c. 28), the Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1734 (8 Geo. 2. c. 21), the Starr and Bent Act 1741 (15 Geo. 2. c. 33) and the Continuance of Laws Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 47), from the expiration of those enactments to the end of the next session of parliament after 29 September 1760.[2]
Section 5 of the act continued the Customs, etc. Act 1721 (8 Geo. 1. c. 18) "except the Clauses obliging all Ships and Vessels to perform Quarantine", as continued by the Continuance of Laws Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 47) and corrected by the Insolvent Debtors Relief, etc. Act 1747 (21 Geo. 2. c. 33), from the expiration of those enactments until the end of the next session of parliament after 29 September 1760.[2]
Section 6 of the act continued the Sail Cloth Manufacture Act 1712 (12 Ann. c. 12)[b], as continued by the Continuance of Laws Act 1718 (5 Geo. 1. c. 25), the Continuance of Laws, etc. Act 1723 (10 Geo. 1. c. 17),the Continuance of Laws Act 1734 (8 Geo. 2. c. 18), the Making of Sail Cloth, etc. Act 1741 (15 Geo. 2. c. 35) and the Stamps Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 45), from the expiration of the act until the end of the next session of parliament after 29 September 1760.[2]
Section 7 of the act provided that the commissioners of the treasury, or any three or more of them, were empowered to direct payment of bounties to Alexander Brown and George Steel for their vessel lost in the Greenland Seas in 1751 while engaged in the whale fishery, bounties to which they would have been entitled had the ship returned to the kingdom.[2]
Section 8 of the act provided that the sum of £1,358 11s 10d due to John Stevenson and company, and Robert Donald and company, for bounties on British-made sail cloth exported from Scotland on or before 1 June 1750, should be paid out of the old subsidy collected in Scotland that was applicable to the payment of incidents, as the established fund for payment of bounties was insufficient to cover these debts without more effectual provision.[2]
Legacy
[edit]The Select Committee on Temporary Laws, Expired or Expiring, appointed in 1796, inspected and considered all temporary laws, observing irregularities in the construction of expiring laws continuance acts, making recommendations and emphasising the importance of the Committee for Expired and Expiring Laws.[3]
The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59).
Notes
[edit]- ^ Start of session.
- ^ This is the citation in The Statutes of the Realm.
References
[edit]- ^ Imprisonment in Medieval England. CUP Archive. p. 345.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Britain, Great (1766). The Statutes at Large: From the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, Anno 1761 [continued to 1807]. Vol. 21. J. Bentham. pp. 198–202.
- ^ Commons, Great Britain Parliament House of (1803). Reports from Committees of the House of Commons which Have Been Printed by Order of the House: And are Not Inserted in the Journals [1715-1801. Vol. 14. pp. 34–118.