List of acts of the 4th session of the 44th Parliament of the United Kingdom

An Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on 31st March 1971, and to appropriate the supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

An Act to amend the enactments relating to the financing and exhibition of films.

An Act to make further provision for the safety of fishing vessels.

An Act to confer on local authorities in Scotland power to take over the control and maintenance of certain footpaths, and to construct and maintain certain footpaths; to authorise local authorities in Scotland to acquire or maintain certain open spaces; and for connected purposes.

An Act to amend the law relating to the provision by parish councils of signs and the administration of burial grounds by burial authorities, and for matters connected therewith.

An Act to provide for the protection and conservation of seals in England and Wales and Scotland and in the adjacent territorial waters.

An Act to make further provision about the courts (including assizes), their business, jurisdiction and procedure; to enable a High Court judge to accept appointment as arbitrator or umpire under an arbitration agreement; to amend the law respecting the enforcement of debt and other liabilities; to amend section 106 of the Rent Act 1968; and for miscellaneous purposes connected with the administration of justice.

An Act to confer further powers on local authorities with respect to the licensing of riding establishments and to amend the Riding Establishments Act 1964.

An Act to abolish actions for breach of promise of marriage and make provision with respect to the property of, and gifts between, persons who have been engaged to marry; to abolish the right of a husband to claim damages for adultery with his wife; to abolish actions for the enticement or harbouring of a spouse, or for the enticement, seduction or harbouring of a child; to make provision with respect to the maintenance of survivors of void marriages; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

An Act to permit marriages on unregistered premises; and for purposes connected therewith.

An Act to provide as respects Scotland for the variation and discharge of certain obligations relating to land; to facilitate the allocation of feuduties and ground annuals; to reduce the period of positive prescription of 20 years to 10 years; to provide for a new form of heritable security; to make certain amendments to the existing law relating to heritable securities; to make certain other amendments to the law relating to conveyancing; to abolish the rights of pre-emption of heritors in respect of glebes; to amend the Lands Tribunal Act 1949; and for connected purposes.

An Act to make fresh provision in place of certain enactments relating to merchant ships and seamen and to repeal some of those enactments without replacement; to make further provision relating to merchant ships and seamen; and for purposes connected therewith.

An Act to make provision in connection with The Gambia becoming a republic within the Commonwealth.

An Act to Amend the Building (Scotland) Act 1959, and for purposes connected therewith.

An Act to make further provision with respect to the supply of goods and services by local authorities to certain public bodies, and for purposes connected therewith.

An Act to make provision with respect to agriculture and related matters and with respect to flood warning systems; and to amend the Diseases of Animals Act 1950.

An Act to prevent discrimination, as regards terms and conditions of employment, between men and women.

An Act to make further provision with respect to the organisation, management and administration of local authority social services; to amend the Health Visiting and Social Work (Training) Act 1962; and for connected purposes.

An Act to amend the law relating to the making of tree preservation orders and the grant of felling licences.

An Act to make further provision with respect to the welfare of chronically sick and disabled persons; and for connected purposes.

An Act to make fresh provision for empowering the court in matrimonial proceedings to make orders ordering either spouse to make financial provision for, or transfer property to, the other spouse or a child of the family, orders for the variation of ante-nuptial and post-nuptial settlements, orders for the custody and education of children and orders varying, discharging or suspending orders made in such proceedings; to make other amendments of the law relating to matrimonial proceedings; to abolish the right to claim restitution of conjugal rights; to declare what interest in property is acquired by a spouse who contributes to its improvement; to make provision as to a spouse's rights of occupation under section 1 of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1967 in certain cases; to extend section 17 of the Married Women's Property Act 1882 and section 7 of the Matrimonial Causes (Property and Maintenance) Act 1958; to amend the law about the property of a person whose marriage is the subject of a decree of judicial separation dying intestate; to abolish the agency of necessity of a wife; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

An Act to provide for the establishment of a National Radiological Protection Board and an Advisory Committee, with functions concerning the protection of people from radiation hazards; and for connected purposes.

An Act to amend the Indecent Advertisements Act 1889.

An Act to provide for the transfer to Hambros Limited of the banking business of Hambros Bank, Limited; and for other purposes.

An Act to confer further powers on the lord mayor, aldermen and citizens of the city of Norwich; to empower them to establish an undertaking for the supply of heat; to make further provision for the improvement, health, local government and finances of the city; and for other purposes.

An Act to make provision for the transfer to the State of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia of the registered office of Hooker Estates Limited; for the cesser of application to that company of provisions of the Companies Acts 1948 to 1967; and for other purposes incidental thereto.

An Act to confer further powers on the lord mayor, aldermen and citizens of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in relation to the finances of the city; and for other purposes.

An Act to confer further powers on the mayor, aldermen and citizens of the city and county of the city of Southampton with regard to finance; to make further provision for the investment of moneys forming part of the superannuation fund maintained by them; and for other purposes.