List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1861

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This is an incomplete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1861.

Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either

For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the list of acts of the Scottish Parliament, the list of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

The number shown after each act's title is its chapter number. Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant

Some of these acts have a

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24 & 25 Vict.

The third session of the

18th Parliament of the United Kingdom

, which met from 5 February 1861 until 6 August 1861.

Public general acts

Short title, or popular name			Citation	Consolidated Fund (10,000,000) Act or the Supply (No. 3) Act 1861[2] (repealed)	24 & 25 Vict. c. 19	7 June 1861
An Act to apply the Sum of Ten Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875)
Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1861[7]			24 & 25 Vict. c. 20	12 June 1861
An Act to continue certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue for the Service of Her Majesty, and to alter and repeal certain other Duties.
Revenue (No. 1) Act 1861[3]			24 & 25 Vict. c. 21	28 June 1861
An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain Duties of Excise and Stamps.
Burford Charities Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 22	28 June 1861
An Act for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for certain Charities in the Town and Parish of Burford in the County of Oxford.
	For the Application and Management of the several Charities in the Town and Parish of Burford in the County of Oxford, herein-after mentioned or referred to, namely:— Poole's Estate; the School, including Wisdom's, Symon's, Reynold's, Rolfe's, Richard Hunt's, and William Hunt's gifts. The Tradesman's Fund, including all sorts of money, and Cleaveley's, Hopton's, Lenthall's, Hayter's, and Harris' Gifts. The Fifteenths Estate, or John Hill's Gift. The Great Almshouse and Wisdom's Almshouse. The Church Estate, including More's, Rolfe's, and Hunt's gifts. And the several other Charities heretofore vested in or under the management of the Feoffees or Trustees of the Burford Charities, or the Corporation of the Borough of Burford respectively.
Reading Charities Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 23	28 June 1861
An Act for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for certain Charities in the Borough of Reading.
	Scheme for the Application and Management of the herein-after mentioned Charities in the Borough of Reading:— A'Larder's Almshouses and Bernard Harrison's Almshouses, and the several subsidiary foundations and endowments heretofore created or appropriated for the maintenance or benefit of the same almshouses respectively, or the inmates thereof:— And also as to the several Charities of Robert Boyer, John Balle, Richard Ironside, Augustine Knapp, John Noyse, Dr. Swaddon, Richard Turnor, Rodolph Warcupp, Thomas Lane, Joseph Carter, Peter Wyboe, William Thorne, Mary Worsley, Edward Kemys, Edward Hamblin, William Brackstone, John Eyre, Willlam Joanes, Thomas Deane, James Pocock, William Iremonger, and Mary Love. Kendrick's Almshouses, Sir Thomas Yachell's Almshouses, and Hall's Almshouses, and the several subsidiary foundations and endowments heretofore created or appropriated for the maintenance or benefit of the same almshouses respectively or the respective inmates thereof, and also as to Richard Johnson's Charity. The several Charities known respectively as Thomas Lydell's Charity, Edward Simeon's Bread Gift, Sir John Simeon's Bread Gift, and Sir Thomas White's Charity for Loans. The several Charities known respectively as John Blagraye's Charity; William Boudry's and John Richard's Charity; and Martin Annesley's Charity. Elizabeth Deane's Charity. Richard Aldworth^s Charity.
Domicile Act 1861[3]			24 & 25 Vict. c. 121	6 August 1861
An Act to amend the Law in relation to the Wills and Domicile of British Subjects dying whilst resident abroad, and of Foreign Subjects dying whilst resident within Her Majesty's Dominions.
Corrupt Practices Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 122	6 August 1861
An Act to continue the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act (1854).
Landed Estates Court (Ireland) Act 1861[3]			24 & 25 Vict. c. 123	6 August 1861
An Act to reduce and alter the Rate of Duty payable on Proceedings under the Statute of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Years of Victoria, Chapter Seventy-two, Section Eighty-eight; and for other Purposes.
Metropolitan Police (Receiver) Act 1861[3] or the Metropolitan Police District Receiver Act 1861[31] or the Metropolitan Police Act 1861[32]			24 & 25 Vict. c. 124	6 August 1861
An Act for amending the Law relating to the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District; and for other purposes.
Parochial Offices Act 1861[3]			24 & 25 Vict. c. 125	6 August 1861
An Act to enable Overseers in populous Parishes to provide Offices for the proper Discharge of Parochial Business.
Volunteers Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 126	6 August 1861
An Act to exempt the Volunteer Forces of Great Britain from the Payment of Tolls.
Treasury Chest Fund Act 1861[33]			24 & 25 Vict. c. 127	6 August 1861
An Act for limiting and regulating the Treasury Chest Fund.
Local Government Supplemental Act 1861 (No. 2)[24] or the Local Government Supplemental (No. 2) Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 128	6 August 1861
An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders under the Local Government Act (1858), relating to the Districts of Plymouth, Weston-super-Mare, Llanelly, and Llandilo; and for other Purposes in relation thereto.
	Provisional Order putting in force the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, within the District of the Plymouth Local Board of Health, for the Purchase of Lands by the said Board for Street Improvements.
	Provisional Order repealing and altering Local Acts in force within the District of Weston-super-Mare, consolidating certain Debts incurred under such Acts, and altering the Powers of Rating within the said District.
	Provisional Order for altering the Boundaries of the District of Weston-super-Mare, in the County of Somerset, as constituted under the Local Government Act, 1858.
	Provisional Order for extending the Borrowing Powers of the Llanelly Local Board of Health.
	Provisional Order for extending the Borrowing Powers of the Llandilo Local Board.
Officers of Reserve to the Navy Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 129	6 August 1861
An Act to enable Her Majesty to accept the Services of Officers of the Merchant Service as Officers of Reserve to the Royal Navy.
Gunpowder and Fireworks Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 130	6 August 1861
An Act for amending an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament to amend the Law concerning the making, keeping, and Carriage of Gunpowder and Compositions of an explosive Nature, and concerning the Manufacture, Sale, and Use of Fireworks.
Episcopal and Capitular Estates Act 1861[3] or the Archdeaconry of Rochester Act 1861[34]			24 & 25 Vict. c. 131	6 August 1861
An Act to continue the Act concerning the Management of Episcopal and Capitular Estates in England, and further to amend certain Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England.
Industrial Schools (Scotland) Act 1861[8]			24 & 25 Vict. c. 132	6 August 1861
An Act for consolidating and amending the Law relating to Industrial Schools in Scotland.
Land Drainage Act 1861[8]			24 & 25 Vict. c. 133	6 August 1861
An Act to amend the Law relating to the Drainage of Land for Agricultural Purposes.
Bankruptcy Act 1861 (repealed)			24 & 25 Vict. c. 134	6 August 1861
An Act to amend the Law relating to Bankruptcy and Insolvency in England. (Repealed by Bankruptcy Repeal and Insolvent Court Act 1869 )

Local acts

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Short title, or popular name			Citation	West Yorkshire Act 1980 (c. xiv))
Llanidloes and Newtown Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. xc	5 February 1861[a]
Middleton and Tonge Improvement Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. c	5 February 1861[a]
London and North Western Railway (Cheshire Lines) Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. cx	5 February 1861[a]
Bognor Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. cxx	5 February 1861[a]
London and North Western Railway (Eccles, Tyldesley and Wigan) Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. cxxx	5 February 1861[a]
New Ross Port and Harbour Amendment Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. cxl	5 February 1861[a]
Manchester and Milford Railway (Aberystwyth Branch) Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. cl	5 February 1861[a]
Airedale Drainage Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. clx	5 February 1861[a]
Wigan Gas Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. clxx	5 February 1861[a]
East Suffolk Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. clxxx	5 February 1861[a]
Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. cxc	5 February 1861[a]
Devon Valley Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. cc	5 February 1861[a]
South Wales Mineral Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccx	5 February 1861[a]
Southampton and Netley Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxx	5 February 1861[a]
Forth and Clyde Junction Railway (Dalmonach Branch) Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxxx	5 February 1861[a]
London, Chatham and Dover Railway (Works) Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxl	5 February 1861[a]
Kent Coast Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxli	5 February 1861[a]
Swansea and Neath Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxlii	5 February 1861[a]
Chard and Taunton Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxliii	5 February 1861[a]
West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Traffic, &c. Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxliv	5 February 1861[a]
Lynn and Sutton Bridge Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxlv	5 February 1861[a]
Midland Counties and Shannon Junction Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxlvi	5 February 1861[a]
Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxlvii	5 February 1861[a]
Blane Valley Railway Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxlviii	5 February 1861[a]
West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Company's Capital Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxlix	5 February 1861[a]

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Private acts

Short title, or popular name			Citation	Royal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
Atkinson Institution of Glasgow Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 1	1 August 1861
An Act to incorporate the Trustees of "The Atkinson Institution of Glasgow," acting under the Will of Thomas Atkinson, Bookseller and Stationer, of Glasgow, deceased, and to enlarge the Powers of such Trustees, the better to enable them to carry out the benevolent Designs of the said Testator.
Savile Estate (Leasing) Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 2	1 August 1861
An Act to extend the Powers of Leasing contained in the Will of the Right Honourable John Savile Lumley Savile Earl of Scarbrough deceased, with respect to certain Estates in the County of York, thereby devised, and therein called the Savile York Estates; and for other Purposes; and of which the Short Title is "Savile Estate (Leasing) Act, 1861."
M'Mahon Estates Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 3	1 August 1861
An Act for authorizing the Application for the Maintenance and Benefit of the Children of Sir Beresford Burston M'Mahon Baronet of certain Monies by the Will of Sir William M'Mahon Baronet, deceased, directed to be accumulated during the Life of Sir Beresford Burston M'Mahon.
Duke of Sutherland's Estate Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 4	6 August 1861
An Act to authorize the Most Noble George Granville William Duke and Earl of Sutherland and Anne Duchess of Sutherland to disentail the Estate of Cromarty, and to grant a new Entail thereof.
Sir William Middleton's Estate Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 5	6 August 1861
An Act to enable the Trustees of the Will of the late Sir William Fowle Fowle Middleton to carry into effect certain Contracts affecting his Estates in London and Middlesex.
Simpson's Hospital Estate Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 6	6 August 1861
An Act for the Amendment of an Act of the Parliament of Ireland of the Session of the 19th and 20th Years of George the Third, incorporating the Trustees of the Hospital founded by George Simpson Esquire, and for confirming Leases granted by the Trustees.
Sir John Simeon's Leasing Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 7	6 August 1861
An Act for confirming Leases granted by Sir Richard Godin Simeon Baronet, deceased, and Sir John Simeon Baronet, respectively, of Parts of the Saint John's Estate in the Parish of Saint Helens in the Isle of Wight; and for other Purposes; and of which the Short Title is "Sir John Simeon's Leasing Act, 1861."
Vane Tempest Estate Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 8	6 August 1861
An Act to simplify certain of the Trusts and Provisions in the Settlements of the Vane Tempest Estates, and for other Purposes connected therewith.
Earl of Egremont's Estate Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 9	6 August 1861
An Act to authorize the granting of Building and Repairing Leases of Parts of the Estates devised and bequeathed by the Will of the Right Honourable George Earl of Egremont deceased, or become subject to the Trusts thereof; and for other Purposes.
Hemsworth Estate Act 1861			24 & 25 Vict. c. 10	6 August 1861
An Act for enabling Trustees to raise Money on Mortgage of the Hemsworth Estates in the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, and for giving Powers of Sale and Exchange over the same Estates.

Sources

• A Collection of the Public General Statutes. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1861 – via Google Books.
• The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 24 & 25 Victoria, 1861. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1861 – via Google Books.
• 24 & 25 Victoria - 1861 – via Internet Archive.
• different edition – via Internet Archive.

See also

• List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} This short title was conferred on this act by section 2 of this act.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Current Law Statutes 1997, vol 3, p 164.
3. ^
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4. 41 & 42 Vict.
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5. ^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 26 of this act.
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8. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q} This short title was conferred on this act by section 1 of this act.
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11. ^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 7 of this act.
12. ^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 6 of this act.
13. ^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 28 of this act.
14. ^ ^{a b} This short title was conferred on this act by section 11 of this act.
15. ^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 9 of this act.
16. ^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 4 of this act.
17. ^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 31 of this act.
18. ^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 14 of this act.
19. ^ Paterson, W (ed). The Practical Statutes of the Session 1861. John Crockford. London. 1861. Pages v.
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21. 40 & 41 Vict.
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23. ^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 20 of this act.
24. ^ ^{a b} This short title was conferred on this act by section 5 of this act.
25. ^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 24 of this act.
26. ^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 74 of this act.
27. 37 & 38 Vict.
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28. ^ Oats, Henry Carne. The Factory Acts. V & R Stevens, Sons, & Haynes. 1862. p 223. This expression is used in sections 11 and 18 of the Factory Act 1874.
29. ^ Paterson, W (ed). The Practical Statutes of the Session 1861. John Crockford. London. 1861. Pages vii and 389 (An Act to enable the Secretary of State in Council of India to raise Money in the United Kingdom for the Service of the Government of India).
30. ^ See Current Law Statutes 1998, Sweet & Maxwell, 1998, vol 3, p 60) though this short title actually belongs to the preceding Act.
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32. 47 & 48 Vict.
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33. 36 & 37 Vict.
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