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This is the title and purpose statement for the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2019, enacted on March 26, 2019.

Its main goal is to simplify the body of UK statute law by formally removing laws that are no longer functional, have already served their purpose, or are redundant.

This is the standard enacting formula used in UK Acts of Parliament.

It signifies that the following content has been formally passed by both Houses of Parliament (the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons) and has received Royal Assent, thereby becoming law.

Part 1 of the Act is dedicated to the actual repeals being enacted.

Section 1 specifically introduces the clauses that list which parts of existing legislation are being repealed by this 2019 Act.

Subsection (1) states that the specific laws detailed in Schedule 1 of this Act are officially repealed, noting the exact extent of the repeal in the third column of that schedule.

Subsection (2) clarifies that these repeals are conditional upon the saving and transitional arrangements outlined in Schedule 2, ensuring that existing rights or ongoing cases are not inadvertently affected.

This section defines the geographical reach of Part 1.

Subsection (1) confirms that the repeals apply across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Subsection (2) creates a specific exception concerning the Police Act 1997 and certain disclosures related to protected information under the Serious Crime Act 2015, ensuring those specific provisions remain unaffected by this Act.

Subsection (3) clarifies that Part 1 applies to Northern Ireland matters even if those matters fall under the power of a Secretary of State to issue orders related to the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978.

Part 2 of the Act deals with general provisions that apply across the whole Act, rather than just the specific repeals detailed in Part 1.

This section provides the official, short title by which this piece of legislation will be known.

The official short title for this legislation is the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2019.

This heading indicates the start of the supplementary schedules which contain the detailed lists and provisions supporting the main parts of the Act.

Schedule 1 contains the primary substance of the Act: a detailed list of every specific piece of legislation or part of legislation that is being repealed by this Act.

This is the column header for the table within Schedule 1, outlining the required information: the Parliamentary session and chapter number of the repealed Act, its short title, and precisely how much of it is being repealed.

This entry specifies the repeal of the Petty Sessions Areas (Ireland) Act 1879 (Chapter 49 of the 1879 legislative year).

The entire Act is being repealed by this Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2019.

The ellipsis indicates that the table in Schedule 1 contains many more entries specifying further enactments to be repealed, but only one example is shown here.

Schedule 2 outlines conditions designed to manage the transition following the repeals made by the Act, ensuring that existing legal situations, rights, or pending matters are handled correctly and not arbitrarily terminated.

Provision 1 in Schedule 2 sets out a general principle for saving existing legal effects when an enactment is repealed by this Act.

This provision states that even though an enactment is repealed, its effect regarding any event that occurred before the repeal date remains valid.

Furthermore, any existing limitations placed on that enactment before its repeal continue to apply to its historical operation.

Provision 2 deals with the preservation of previous repeals if this Act repeals an enactment that itself previously repealed another law.

If this Act repeals a law that had previously been used to repeal yet another law, subsection (a) ensures that the original, older repealed law is not accidentally brought back into force.

Subsection (b) confirms that any existing savings or repeals already established by that earlier repealing enactment remain untouched by this current Act.

Provision 3 addresses situations where a repealed enactment modified or impacted other existing laws.

When an Act repeals a law that had been modifying another law (e.g., extending its scope or limiting it), this provision ensures that the other, unaffected law continues in operation.

The only change is the removal of the specific modification that the now-repealed law imposed upon it.