List of acts of the 2nd session of the 49th Parliament of the United Kingdom

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This is a list of acts of the 2nd session of the 49th Parliament of the United Kingdom, which ran from 6 November 1984[1] until 30 October 1985.[2]

Acts passed since 1963 are

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

125 acts of Parliament were passed by the 49th Parliament in its 2nd session: 75 public general acts, 49 local acts and 1 personal act.

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Public general acts

Short title, or popular nameCitation
Weights and Measures Act 1985
1985 c. 72
30 October 1985
An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to weights and measures.
1985 c. 73
30 October 1985
An Act to amend the law of Scotland in respect of certain leases, other contracts and obligations; certain courts and their powers; evidence and procedure; certain criminal penalties; the care of children; the functions of the Commissioner for Local Administration; solicitors; and certain procedures relating to crofting and the valuation of sheep stocks; and to make, as respects Scotland, certain other miscellaneous reforms of the law.
  1. ^ The reference to the Senior Courts Act 1981 was originally to the Supreme Court Act 1981, but that Act was renamed by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 on 1 October 2009 (along with consequential amendments to this Act).[6]

Local acts

Short title, or popular nameCitation
Clwyd County Council Act 1985
1985 c. xliv
30 October 1985
An Act to re-enact with amendments and to extend certain local statutory provisions in force within the county of Clwyd; to confer further powers on the local authorities in that county; to make further provision with respect to the improvement, health and local government of the county; and for other purposes.

Personal act

Short title, or popular nameCitationRoyal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
1985 c. 1
27 March 1985
An Act to enable Valerie Mary Hill and Alan Monk to be married to each other.

Notes

References

  1. ^ House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons, vol. 241, p. 3.
  2. ^ House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons, vol. 241, p. 656.
  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. ^ Constitutional Reform Act 2005, 2005 c. 4, ss. 59(5) & 148(1) & Sch. 11 para. 1(2); Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2009, S.I. 2009/1604 (C. 83) arts. 2(b) & 2(d).