List of acts of the 2nd session of the 52nd Parliament of the United Kingdom

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This is a list of

acts of the 2nd session of the 52nd Parliament of the United Kingdom, which ran from 24 November 1998[1] until 11 November 1999.[2]

Acts passed since 1963 are

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

39 acts of Parliament were passed by the 52nd Parliament in its 2nd session: 35 public general acts and 4 local acts.

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Public general acts

Short title, or popular nameCitation
Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 1999
1999 c. 20
27 July 1999
An Act to make provision about the Commonwealth Development Corporation.
1999 c. 21
27 July 1999
An Act to make further provision in relation to football-related offences; to make further provision for the purpose of preventing violence or disorder at or in connection with football matches; and for connected purposes.
1999 c. 22
27 July 1999
An Act to establish the Legal Services Commission, the Community Legal Service and the Criminal Defence Service; to amend the law of legal aid in Scotland; to make further provision about legal services; to make provision about appeals, courts, judges and court proceedings; to amend the law about magistrates and magistrates' courts; and to make provision about immunity from action and costs and indemnities for certain officials exercising judicial functions.
1999 c. 23
27 July 1999
An Act to provide for the referral of offenders under 18 to youth offender panels; to make provision in connection with the giving of evidence or information for the purposes of criminal proceedings; to amend section 51 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994; to make pre-consolidation amendments relating to youth justice; and for connected purposes.
1999 c. 24
27 July 1999
An Act to make provision for implementing Council Directive 96/61/EC and for otherwise preventing and controlling pollution; to make provision about certain expired or expiring disposal or waste management licences; and for connected purposes.
1999 c. 25
27 July 1999
An Act to make provision enabling verdicts of guilty but insane to be referred to and reviewed by the Court of Appeal.
1999 c. 26
27 July 1999
An Act to amend the law relating to employment, to trade unions and to employment agencies and businesses.
1999 c. 27
27 July 1999
An Act to make provision imposing on local and certain other authorities requirements relating to economy, efficiency and effectiveness; and to make provision for the regulation of council tax and precepts.
1999 c. 28
11 November 1999
An Act to establish the Food Standards Agency and make provision as to its functions; to amend the law relating to food safety and other interests of consumers in relation to food; to enable provision to be made in relation to the notification of tests for food-borne diseases; to enable provision to be made in relation to animal feedingstuffs; and for connected purposes.
1999 c. 29
11 November 1999
An Act to establish and make provision about the Greater London Authority, the Mayor of London and the London Assembly; to make provision in relation to London borough councils and the Common Council of the City of London with respect to matters consequential on the establishment of the Greater London Authority; to make provision with respect to the functions of other local authorities and statutory bodies exercising functions in Greater London; to make provision about transport and road traffic in and around Greater London; to make provision about policing in Greater London and to make an adjustment of the metropolitan police district; and for connected purposes.
1999 c. 30
11 November 1999
An Act to make provision about pensions and social security; to make provision for reducing under-occupation of dwellings by housing benefit claimants; to authorise certain expenditure by the Secretary of State having responsibility for social security; and for connected purposes.
1999 c. 31
11 November 1999
An Act to make provision for the enforcement of contractual terms by third parties.
1999 c. 32
11 November 1999
An Act to authorise hospital managers to continue to hold, expend and dispose of the property of persons to whom section 94(1) of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 no longer applies.
1999 c. 33
11 November 1999
An Act to make provision about immigration and asylum; to make provision about procedures in connection with marriage on superintendent registrar's certificate; and for connected purposes.
1999 c. 34
11 November 1999
An Act to restrict membership of the House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage; to make related provision about disqualifications for voting at elections to, and for membership of, the House of Commons; and for connected purposes.

Local acts

Short title, or popular nameCitation
HFC Bank Act 1999
1999 c. iv
30 June 1999
An Act to provide for the transfer to HFC Bank plc and Household International (U.K.) Limited of the business of Beneficial Bank PLC; and for connected purposes.

References

  1. ^ House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons, vol. 255, p. 1.
  2. ^ House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons, vol. 255, p. 578.
  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.