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Short Titles Act 1896

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The Short Titles Act 1896 (1896)
Parliament of the United Kingdom

Source: The Public General Statutes, 59 & 60 Vict, 1896. Queen's printer. London. 1896. Pages 13 to 248.

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From the The Public General Statutes (1896),

CHAPTER 14.

An Act to facilitate the Citation of sundry Acts of Parliament.[20th July 1896.]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Citation of Acts in First Schedule.1. Each of the Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by the short title therein mentioned in that behalf.

Collective titles.2.—(1.) Each of the groups of Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by the collective title therein mentioned in that behalf.

(2.) If it is provided that any Act passed after this Act may, as to the whole or any part thereof, be cited with any of the groups of Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act, or with any group of Acts to which a collective title has been given by any Act passed before this Act, that group shall be construed as including that Act or part, and, if the collective title of the group states the first and last years of the group, the year in which that Act is passed shall be substituted for the last year of the group, and so on as often as a subsequent Act or part is added to the group.

Effect of repeal of enactments giving short title3. Notwithstanding the repeal of an enactment giving a short title to an Act, the Act may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, continue to be cited by that short title.

Repeal of 55 & 56 Vict. c. 10. 4. The Short Titles Act, 1892 is hereby repealed.

Short title.5. This Act may be cited as the Short Titles Act, 1896.



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