List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1866

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This is an incomplete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1866.

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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29 & 30 Vict.

The first session of the

19th Parliament of the United Kingdom

, which met from 1 February 1866 until 10 August 1866.

Public general acts

Short title, or popular name			Citation	Industrial Schools Act 1866[1]	29 & 30 Vict. c. 118	10 August 1866
An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to Industrial Schools in Great Britain.
Habeas Corpus Suspension (Ireland) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 119	10 August 1866
An Act to continue the Act of the Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One, intituled "An Act to empower the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to apprehend and detain for a limited Time such Persons as he or they shall suspect of conspiring against Her Majesty's Person and Government."
Patriotic Fund Act 1866[11]			29 & 30 Vict. c. 120	10 August 1866
An Act to make Provision for the Administration of the Patriotic Fund.
Extradition Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 121	10 August 1866
An Act for the Amendment of the Law relating to Treaties of Extradition.
Metropolitan Commons Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 122	10 August 1866
An Act to make Provision for the Improvement, Protection, and Management of Commons near the Metropolis.

Local acts

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Short title, or popular name			Citation	SI 1965/540))
Metropolitan Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clx	1 February 1866[a]
Sunningdale and Cambridge Town Railway (Alterations) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clxi	1 February 1866[a]
West Riding and Grimsby Railway (Transfer) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clxii	1 February 1866[a]
Hatfield Chase Warping and Improvement (Railway) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clxiii	1 February 1866[a]
London, Worcester and South Wales Railway (Deviation) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clxiv	1 February 1866[a]
Severn Junction Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clxv	1 February 1866[a]
Great Northern Railway (Barnet Branch Abandonment) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clxvi	16 July 1866
Leven and East of Fife Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clxvii	1 February 1866[a]
London and North Western Railway (New Lines) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clxviii	1 February 1866[a]
Stourbridge Improvement Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clxix	1 February 1866[a]
Kingsbridge and Dartmouth Roads Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clxx	1 February 1866[a]
East London Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. clxxx	1 February 1866[a]
London and North Western Railway (Whitehaven Railway Transfer) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cxc	1 February 1866[a]
North British Railway (Esk Valley Lease) Act 1866 (repealed)			29 & 30 Vict. c. cc	1 February 1866[a]
(Repealed by North British Railway Act 1871 (c.cvi))
Mid Wales Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccx	1 February 1866[a]
Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway (Deviations, &c.) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxx	1 February 1866[a]
Stourbridge Railway (Further Powers) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxxi	1 February 1866[a]
Bradford Corporation Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxxii	1 February 1866[a]
Midland Railway (Settle to Carlisle) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxxiii	1 February 1866[a]
Bideford, Appledore and Westward Ho! Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxxiv	1 February 1866[a]
Guardian Assurance Company's Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxxv	1 February 1866[a]
Shrewsbury Bridges Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxxvi	1 February 1866[a]
South Eastern Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxxvii	1 February 1866[a]
Brean Down Dock Act 1866 (repealed)			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxxviii	1 February 1866[a]
(Repealed by Brean Down Harbour Railway Act 1889 (c.cciv))
Medway Docks Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxxix	1 February 1866[a]
New River Company's Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxxx	1 February 1866[a]
Aberavon Local Board Act 1866 (repealed)			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxl	1 February 1866[a]
(Repealed by Port Talbot Corporation Act 1972 (c. xlix))
Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway (Branches, Alterations, &c.) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccl	1 February 1866[a]
Bedford and Northampton Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cclx	1 February 1866[a]
Buckley and Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway Companies Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cclxx	1 February 1866[a]
Metropolitan Sewage and Essex Reclamation Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cclxxx	30 July 1866
Muswell Hill Estate and Railways Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxc	30 July 1866
North British Railway (Camps, &c. Branches) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxci	30 July 1866
Caithness Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxcii	30 July 1866
Liverpool Sewage Utilization Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxciii	30 July 1866
Liverpool Central Station Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxciv	30 July 1866
North Eastern Railway (Leeds and Wetherby Branch) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxcv	30 July 1866
Bute Docks Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxcvi	30 July 1866
Gwendreath Valleys Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxcvii	30 July 1866
Midland Railway (Branches, &c.) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxcviii	30 July 1866
North Metropolitan Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccxcix	30 July 1866
Weardale and Shildon District Waterworks Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccc	30 July 1866
East India Irrigation and Canal Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccci	1 February 1866[a]
Madras Irrigation and Canal Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cccii	1 February 1866[a]
Ryde Station Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccciii	1 February 1866[a]
Aberdare and Central Wales Junction Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccciv	1 February 1866[a]
New Romney Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cccv	1 February 1866[a]
Brecon and Llandovery Junction Railway Amendment Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cccvi	1 February 1866[a]
Great Western Railway (Further Powers) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cccvii	1 February 1866[a]
Greenock and Shaws Water Transfer Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cccviii	1 February 1866[a]
Greenock Water (Additional Works) Act 1866 (repealed)			29 & 30 Vict. c. cccix	1 February 1866[a]
(Repealed by Greenock Corporation Act 1909 (c.cxxix))
Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cccx	1 February 1866[a]
Anglesey Central Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cccxx	1 February 1866[a]
Anglesey Central Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cccxxx	1 February 1866[a]
South Essex Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cccxl	1 February 1866[a]
Caledonian and Scottish North Eastern Railways Amalgamation Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. cccl	1 February 1866[a]
Sligo and Ballaghaderreen Junction Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccclx	1 February 1866[a]
Brighton West Pier Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccclxi	1 February 1866[a]
An Act to incorporate the Brighton West Pier Company; and to enable them to construct a Pier at Brighton in the County of Sussex; and for other Purposes.
Downpatrick, Dundrum and Newcastle Railway Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccclxii	1 February 1866[a]
An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway from Dowmpatrick through Dundrum to Newcastle in the County of Down.
London, Chatham and Dover Railway (New Streets) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. ccclxiii	1 February 1866[a]
An Act to authorize the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company to make new Streets and Alterations of Streets for improving the Access to their Ludgate Station; to authorize the Kent Coast Railway Company to make a new Road at Ramsgate; and to confer Powers and impose Obligations on the Corporation of the City of London with respect to the new and altered Streets; and for other Purposes.

Private acts

Short title, or popular name			Citation	Royal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
Buchanan's Estate Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 1	16 July 1866
An Act to authorize the Sale of the Entailed Estate of Arden in the County of Dumbarton, and to apply the Prices to be received for the same in the Purchase of other Lands in Scotland to be entailed in lieu thereof.
Clare College (Blythe's Benefaction) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 2	23 July 1866
An Act for the better Regulation of Doctor Blythe's Benefaction to Clare College, Cambridge.
Taylor's Estate Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 3	23 July 1866
An Act to authorize a Sale of Part of the Estates of the late Joseph Taylor of Gledhow Mount in the Parish of Leeds in the West Riding of the County of York, Esquire.
Troyte's Estate Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 4	23 July 1866
An Act for authorizing the Trustees of the Will of the Reverend Edward Berkeley Troyte, Doctor of Laws, deceased, to pull down the existing Family Mansion of Huntsham Court, and to build a new Family Mansion on a fresh Site on Part of the Estates subject to the Limitations of the same Will, situate in the Parish of Huntsham in the County of Devon; and for other Purposes.
Rawson's Estate Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 5	30 July 1866
An Act for authorizing a Lease to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Bradford in the County of York of Part of the Settled Estates devised by the Will of Benjamin Rawson Esquire, deceased.
Sutherland-Walker's Estate Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 6	30 July 1866
An Act for authorizing Leases and Sales of Estates in the West Riding of the County of York which are subject to the Limitations of the Will of Ann Walker deceased.
Hamilton's Estate Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 7	6 August 1866
An Act to confirm an Agreement with Respect to the Estate of the late Agnes Hamilton, and to provide for the Administration of the Funds left by her for the Payment of Annuities.
Market Bosworth School Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 8	6 August 1866
An Act for the better Regulation of Market Bosworth School.
Charles Sheils' Almshouses Charity Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 9	6 August 1866
An Act for amending "Charles Sheils' Almshouses Charity Act, 1864."
Lloyd's Estates (Partition) Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 10	10 August 1866
An Act for the Partition or Division of certain Estates in the Counties of Flint and Denbigh formerly Property of Dorothea Lloyd and others.
Lady Slaney's (Trust) Estate Act 1866			29 & 30 Vict. c. 11	10 August 1866
An Act to authorize the Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of Grocers of the City of London, as Trustees under the Will of Dame Margaret Slaney deceased, to consent to the Union of the Benefices of Allhallows Staining and Saini Catherine Coleman in the City of London, and for enabling the Trustees to carry into more complete Effect the Trusts of the Will.
Rowan Cashel's Divorce Act 1866[a]			29 & 30 Vict. c. 12	1 February 1866[b]
An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Rowan Francis Cashel, Doctor of Medicine, with Emily Harriett his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes.
Naturalization of Francis Lowther Act 1866[a]			29 & 30 Vict. c. 13	1 February 1866[b]
An Act to naturalize Francis William Lowther, Esquire, a Lieutenant in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, and to grant to and confer upon him all the Rights, Privileges, and Capacities of a natural-born Subject of Her Majesty the Queen.
Enabling William Whitmarsh to exercise the office of priest and hold any benefice or preferment in the Church of England and Ireland.[a]			29 & 30 Vict. c. 14	1 February 1866[b]
An Act to enable William Whitmarsh Clerk to execute his Office of a Priest and to hold any Ecclesiastical Preferment or Office in the United Church of England and Ireland within Her Majesty's Dominions.

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See also

• List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

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