List of acts of the 1st session of the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom

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This is a list of acts of the 1st session of the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom, which ran from 11 May 2005[1] until 8 November 2006.[2]

Acts passed since 1963 are

personal acts. These run as separate series.[5]

60 acts of Parliament were passed by the 54th Parliament in its 1st session: 56 public general acts and 4 local acts.

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Public general acts

Short title, or popular nameCitation
Appropriation (No. 2) Act 2006 (repealed)
2006 c. 24
19 July 2006
An Act to authorise the use of resources for the service of the year ending with 31st March 2007 and to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending with 31st March 2007; to appropriate the supply authorised in this Session of Parliament for the service of the year ending with 31st March 2007; and to repeal certain Consolidated Fund and Appropriation Acts.
2006 c. 25
19 July 2006
An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with finance.
2006 c. 26
19 July 2006
An Act to make provision about common land and town or village greens; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 27
19 July 2006
An Act to make provision about the delegation of functions by the Housing Corporation and Housing for Wales and about the validation of things done or evidenced by, and the authentication of the fixing of, their seals.
2006 c. 28
19 July 2006
An Act to make provision for the prohibition of smoking in certain premises, places and vehicles and for amending the minimum age of persons to whom tobacco may be sold; to make provision in relation to the prevention and control of health care associated infections; to make provision in relation to the management and use of controlled drugs; to make provision in relation to the supervision of certain dealings with medicinal products and the running of pharmacy premises, and about orders under the Medicines Act 1968 and orders amending that Act under the Health Act 1999; to make further provision about the National Health Service in England and Wales and about the recovery of National Health Service costs; to make provision for the establishment and functions of the Appointments Commission; to make further provision about the exercise of social care training functions; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 29
25 July 2006
An Act to specify certain factors that may be taken into account by a court determining a claim in negligence or breach of statutory duty; to make provision about damages for mesothelioma; and to make provision for the regulation of claims management services.
2006 c. 30
25 July 2006[a]
An Act to establish and make provision about the office of Commissioner for Older People in Wales; to make provision about the functions of the Commissioner for Older People in Wales; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 31
25 July 2006
An Act to require the Secretary of State to report annually on total expenditure on international aid and on the breakdown of such aid, and in particular on progress towards the target for expenditure on official development assistance to constitute 0.7 per cent of gross national income; to require such reports to contain information about expenditure by country, about the proportion of expenditure in low income countries and about the effectiveness of aid expenditure and the transparency of international aid; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 32
25 July 2006
An Act to make provision about the government of Wales.
2006 c. 33
25 July 2006
An Act to make provision about registration of electors and the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland; to amend the Northern Ireland Act 1998; to make provision about donations for political purposes; to extend the amnesty period for arms decommissioning in Northern Ireland; and to make miscellaneous amendments in the law relating to Northern Ireland.
2006 c. 34
8 November 2006
An Act to make further provision about civil aviation, including provision about the funding of the Air Travel Trust; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 35
8 November 2006
An Act to make provision for, and in connection with, criminal liability for fraud and obtaining services dishonestly.
2006 c. 36
8 November 2006
An Act to consolidate enactments about wireless telegraphy.
2006 c. 37
8 November 2006
An Act to consolidate the House of Commons Costs Taxation Act 1847, the House of Lords Costs Taxation Act 1849, the Parliamentary Costs Act 1865, the Parliamentary Costs Act 1867, the Parliamentary Costs Act 1871 and the House of Commons Costs Taxation Act 1879, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.
2006 c. 38
8 November 2006
An Act to make provision for reducing and dealing with the abuse of alcohol; to make provision about real and imitation firearms, about ammunition and about knives and other weapons; to amend the Football Spectators Act 1989 and the Football (Disorder) Act 2000; to amend the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and section 8 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998; to amend section 23 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969; to amend the Mobile Telephones (Re-programming) Act 2002; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 39
8 November 2006
An Act to make it an offence to obstruct or hinder persons who provide emergency services; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 40
8 November 2006
An Act to make provision about primary, secondary and further education and about training; to make provision about food or drink provided on school premises or in connection with the provision of education or childcare; to provide for the establishment of an Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills and the appointment of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills and make provision about the functions of that Office and that Chief Inspector; to provide for the amendment of references to local education authorities and children’s services authorities; to amend section 29 of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 in relation to university bodies; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 41
8 November 2006
An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the health service.
2006 c. 42
8 November 2006
An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the health service.
2006 c. 43
8 November 2006
An Act to make provision for repeals, revocations, consequential amendments, transitional and transitory modifications and savings in connection with the consolidation of enactments in the National Health Service Act 2006 and the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006.
2006 c. 44
8 November 2006
An Act to make provision about arrangements for redress in relation to liability in tort in connection with services provided as part of the health service in England or Wales; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 45
8 November 2006
An Act to make provision about animal welfare; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 46
8 November 2006
An Act to reform company law and restate the greater part of the enactments relating to companies; to make other provision relating to companies and other forms of business organisation; to make provision about directors' disqualification, business names, auditors and actuaries; to amend Part 9 of the Enterprise Act 2002; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 47
8 November 2006
An Act to make provision in connection with the protection of children and vulnerable adults.
2006 c. 48
8 November 2006
An Act to establish a National Policing Improvement Agency; to make provision about police forces and police authorities and about police pensions; to make provision about police powers and about the powers and duties of community support officers, weights and measures inspectors and others; to make provision about the supply to the police and others of information contained in registers of death; to make further provision for combatting crime and disorder; to make further provision about certain inspectorates; to amend Part 12 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; to amend the Computer Misuse Act 1990; to make provision about the forfeiture of indecent images of children; to provide for the conferring of functions on the Independent Police Complaints Commission in relation to the exercise of enforcement functions by officials involved with immigration and asylum; to amend the Extradition Act 2003; to make further provision about the use of live links in criminal proceedings; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 49
8 November 2006
An Act to make provision about road traffic, registration plates, vehicle and driver information, hackney carriages and private hire vehicles, and trunk road picnic areas.
2006 c. 50
8 November 2006
An Act to provide for the establishment and functions of the Charity Commission for England and Wales and the Charity Tribunal; to make other amendments of the law about charities, including provision about charitable incorporated organisations; to make further provision about public charitable collections and other fund-raising carried on in connection with charities and other institutions; to make other provision about the funding of such institutions; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 51
8 November 2006
An Act to enable provision to be made for the purpose of removing or reducing burdens resulting from legislation and promoting regulatory principles; to make provision about the exercise of regulatory functions; to make provision about the interpretation of legislation relating to the European Communities and the European Economic Area; to make provision relating to section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972; and for connected purposes.
2006 c. 52
8 November 2006
An Act to make provision with respect to the armed forces; and for connected purposes.
  1. ^ The Queen's Printer edition erroneously states that Royal Assent was given on 25 July 2005, but the Journals of the House of Commons and the Journals of the House of Lords both confirm that it was in fact given on 25 July 2006.[6][7]

Local acts

Short title, or popular nameCitation
Maidstone Borough Council Act 2006
2006 c. iv
11 July 2006
An Act to confer powers on Maidstone Borough Council for the better control of street trading in the borough of Maidstone.

Notes

References

  1. ^ House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons, vol. 262, p. 1.
  2. ^ House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons, vol. 262, p. 889.
  3. ^ Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act 1962, 10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 34, s. 1.
  4. ^ Law Commission; Scottish Law Commission, Report on the Interpretation Act 1889 and certain other enactments relating to the construction and operation of Acts of Parliament and other instruments (PDF), (Cmnd. 7235; Law Com. No. 90; Scot Law Com. No. 53, 1978) para. 7A; cf. An Act for shortening the Language used in Acts of Parliament, 13 & 14 Vict. c. 21, s. 3 (now rep.) and the Interpretation Act 1889, 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 35(1) (now rep.).
  5. ^ Erskine May, para. 30.75, archived from the original on 9 September 2021, retrieved 9 September 2021.
  6. ^ House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons (PDF), vol. 262, p. 789.
  7. ^ House of Lords, Journals of the House of Lords (PDF), vol. 239, p. 1086.