An Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing superfluous expressions of enactment, and enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary (Statute Law Revision Act, 1888)
WHEREAS in numerous statutes the expression "be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid," or similar expressions of enactment, are frequently repeated, and it is expedient, with a view to the revision of the Statute Law, and particularly to the improvement of the Revised Edition of the Statutes, to repeal these expressions, which are superfluous; And whereas it is expedient that certain enactments which may be regarded as spent, or have ceased to be in force otherwise than by express sp...