Statute Law Revision Act 1888

Statute Law Revision Act 1888
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	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.
Citation	51 & 52 Vict. c. 3
Introduced by	Hardinge Giffard, 1st Baron Halsbury (Lords)
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	27 March 1888
Commencement	27 March 1888
Repealed	16 November 1989 (UK only)
Other legislation
Amends	See § Repealed enactments
Repeals/revokes	See § Repealed enactments
Amended by	Statute Law Revision Act 1908
Relates to	Repeal of Obsolete Statutes Act 1856; Statute Law Revision Act 1861; Statute Law Revision Act 1863; Statute Law Revision Act 1867; Statute Law Revision Act 1870; Promissory Oaths Act 1871; Statute Law Revision Act 1871; Statute Law Revision Act 1872; Statute Law Revision Act 1872 (No. 2); Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1872; Statute Law Revision Act 1873; Statute Law Revision Act 1874; Statute Law Revision Act 1874 (No. 2); Statute Law Revision Act 1875; Statute Law Revision (Substituted Enactments) Act 1876; Sheriffs Act 1887; Statute Law Revision Act 1878; Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1878; Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1879; Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act 1879; Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1881; Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1883; Statute Law Revision Act 1883; Statute Law Revision Act 1887; Statute Law Revision Act 1890; Statute Law Revision Act 1891; Statute Law Revision Act 1892; Statute Law Revision Act 1893; Statute Law Revision Act 1894; Statute Law Revision Act 1898; Statute Law Revision Act 2007 (Republic of Ireland);
Status: Repealed
History of passage through Parliament
Records of Parliamentary debate relating to the statute from Hansard
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Statute Law Revision Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 3) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed various United Kingdom statutes which had ceased to be in force or had become necessary. The act was intended, in particular, to facilitate the preparation of the new edition of the revised edition of the statutes, then in progress.

The act went further than previous Statute Law Revision Acts, in so far as it omitted unnecessary words.