Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986

Repeals and associated amendments

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• (1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.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.

Extent

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• (1) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.

• (2) Any amendment or repeal by this Act of an enactment which extends to the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man shall also extend there.

• (3) The repeal of—

• (a) the Dentists Act 1878, and

• (b) the Medical Act 1886,

shall extend to any colony to which that Act extends.

• (4) Subject to subsection (3) above, this Act does not repeal any enactment so far as the enactment forms part of the law of a country outside the British Islands; 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 colony.

Short title

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This Act may be cited as the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986.

SCHEDULE 1

PART I — Administration of Justice

PART II — Agriculture

PART III — Finance

PART IV — Imports and Exports

PART V — Industrial Relations

PART VI — Intellectual Property

PART VII — Local Government

PART VIII — Medicine and Health Services

PART IX — Overseas Jurisdiction

PART X — Parliamentary and Constitutional Provisions

PART XI — Shipping, Harbours and Fisheries

PART XII — Subordinate Legislation Procedure

PART XIII — Miscellaneous

SCHEDULE 2

Sheriff Courts Consignations (Scotland) Act 1893

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In section 7 of the Sheriff Courts Consignations (Scotland) Act 1893, for the words from " in each succeeding year " to " shall be made " there shall be substituted " in each year the sheriff clerk shall lodge with the Secretary of State a detailed return of unclaimed consignations "

Trade Marks Act 1938

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After section 40 of the Trade Marks Act 1938 there shall be inserted the following section (which replaces section 82 of the Patents and Designs Act 1907)—

(40A) (1) Rules under section 40 of this Act may specify the hour at which the Patent Office shall be deemed to be closed on any day for purposes of the transaction by the public of business under this Act or of any class of such business, and may specify days as excluded days for any such purposes. (2) Any business done under this Act on any day after the hour specified as aforesaid in relation to business of that class, or on a day which is an excluded day in relation to business of that class, shall be deemed to have been done on the next following day not being an excluded day; and where the time for doing anything under this Act expires on an excluded day, that time shall be extended to the next following day not being an excluded day.

Patents, Designs, Copyright and Trade Marks (Emergency) Act 1939

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Section 6(1) of the Patents, Designs, Copyright and Trade Marks (Emergency) Act 1939 shall continue to have effect with the amendment made by section 6(2) of the Patents and Designs Act 1946, that is, with the substitution of " that the act was not done within the time so limited by reason that a person was on active service or by reason of " for " that the doing of the act within the time so limited was prevented by a person's being on active service or by ".

Representation of the People Act 1948

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• (1) In section 1 of the Representation of the People Act 1948 the following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (1)—

(1) There shall for the purpose of parliamentary elections be the county and borough constituencies (or in Scotland the county and burgh constituencies), each returning a single member, which are described in Orders in Council made under the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Acts 1949 to 1979.

• (2) Neither sub-paragraph (1) above nor the repeal by this Act of Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1948 shall affect the constitution of the Northern Ireland Assembly in being at the commencement of this Act or any election to the Assembly before the next general election to the Assembly.