List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918
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This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1918.
Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either
list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland. For acts passed from 1707 to 1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. See also the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland
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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
Arabic numerals
in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3". Acts passed from 1963 onwards are simply cited by calendar year and chapter number.
7 & 8 Geo. 5
Continuing the seventh session of the
30th Parliament of the United Kingdom
, which met from 7 February 1917 until 6 February 1918.
Public general acts
| Short title, or popular name | Citation | Metropolitan Police Act 1918  | 7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 61 | 6 February 1918 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
An Act to amend the Metropolitan Police Act, 1912. | ||||||
7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 62 | 6 February 1918 | |||||
An Act to amend the Acts relating to National Health Insurance. | ||||||
7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 63 | 6 February 1918 | |||||
An Act to amend the National Insurance (Part II.) (Munition Workers) Act, 1916, and to amend the National Insurance (Unemployment) Acts, 1911 to 1916, with respect to the proportion to be borne by the amount of unemployment benefit to the number of contributions paid. | ||||||
Representation of the People Act 1918 (repealed)  | 7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 64 | 6 February 1918 | ||||
An Act to amend the Law with respect to Parliamentary and Local Government Franchises, and the Registration of Parliamentary and Local Government Electors, and the conduct of elections, and to provide for the Redistribution of Seats at Parliamentary Elections, and for other purposes connected therewith. (Repealed by Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928) | ||||||
7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 65 | 6 February 1918 | |||||
An Act to provide for the Redistribution of Seats at Parliamentary Elections in Ireland and for purposes connected therewith. | ||||||
7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 66 | 6 February 1918 | |||||
An Act to repeal subsection (3) of section three of the Military Service Act, 1916, and to provide for the cancellation of certificates of exemption from military service granted on occupational grounds. | ||||||
7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 67 | 6 February 1918 | |||||
An Act to restrict temporarily the persons who may engage in business connected with certain non-ferrous metals and metallic ores. | ||||||
Local acts
| Short title, or popular name | Citation | Royal assent (or the start of session) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long title | ||||
7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. lx | 6 February 1918 | |||
An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1889 relating to Port Glasgow Water. | ||||
Port Glasgow Water Order 1917 Provisional Order to authorise the Provost Magistrates and Councillors of the Burgh of Port Glasgow to make and maintain additional Waterworks and for other purposes. | ||||
Sources
- 7 & 8 George V - 1917-8 – via HathiTrust.
- Journals of the House of Commons (PDF). Vol. 172 (February 1917 - February 1918) – via parliament.uk.
8 & 9 Geo. 5
The eighth session of the
30th Parliament of the United Kingdom
, which met from 12 February 1918 until 21 November 1918.
Public general acts
| Short title, or popular name | Citation | Appropriation Act 1918 | 8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 56 | 21 November 1918 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
An Act to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and seventeen and one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 57 | 21 November 1918 | |||||
An Act to make provision for the better administration of the enactments relating to Naval, Military, and Air Force War Pensions, Grants, and Allowances, and for certain other purposes connected with such pensions, grants, and allowances. | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 58 | 21 November 1918 | |||||
An Act to authorise the taking possession of premises required, in connection with schemes of demobilisation, for Employment Exchanges and other purposes of the Ministry of Labour. | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 59 | 21 November 1918 | |||||
An Act to make provision for determining the date of the termination of the present war, and for purposes connected therewith. | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 60 | 21 November 1918 | |||||
An Act to amend the Ministry of Munitions Act, 1915. | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 61 | 21 November 1918 | |||||
An Act for prescribing Minimum Rates of Wages during a limited period and for repealing certain provisions of the Munitions of War Acts. | ||||||
Local acts
| Short title, or popular name | Citation | Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Act 1918 | 8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. i | 16 May 1918 | ||
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An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Carnarvon Halifax and Wallasey. | ||||||
Carnarvon Order 1918 Provisional Order for altering the Carnarvon Corporation Act 1897.[a]
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Glasgow Corporation Order 1918 | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xxvi | 30 July 1918 | |||||
An Act to confirm Provisional Orders under the Land Drainage Act 1861 in the matter of proposed Drainage Districts in the Parish of Pinchbeck in the Holland Division of the County of Lincoln. (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993) | ||||||
Land Drainage (Pinchbeck (Leaves Lakes)) Provisional Order. In the matter of a proposed Drainage District in the Parish of Pinchbeck in the Holland Division of the County of Lincoln. | ||||||
Land Drainage (Pinchbeck (Star Lode)) Provisional Order In the matter of a proposed Drainage District in the Parish of Pinchbeck in the Holland Division of the County of Lincoln. | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xxvii | 30 July 1918 | |||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xxviii | 30 July 1918 | |||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xxix | 30 July 1918 | |||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xxx | 30 July 1918 | |||||
An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 to 1909 relating to Newquay (Amendment) and Wednesbury (Amendment). | ||||||
Newquay Electric Lighting Order 1918 Provisional Order granted by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 to 1909 to the Newquay Electric Light and Power Company Limited in respect of the urban district of Newquay in the county of Cornwall.
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Wednesbury Electric Supply (Transfer) Order 1918 Provisional Order granted by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 to 1909 to the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Wednesbury for the amendment of the Wednesbury Electric Supply Order 1899. | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xxxi | 30 July 1918 | |||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xxxii | 30 July 1918 | |||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xxxiii | 8 August 1918 | |||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xxxiv | 8 August 1918 | |||||
An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board relating to
Kendal. (Repealed by 1 & 2 Geo. 6. c. lviii)) | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xliv | 21 November 1918 | |||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xlv | 21 November 1918 | |||||
West Midlands County Council Act 1980 (c. xi)) | ||||||
Birmingham Order 1918 Provisional Order made in pursuance of Sections 59 and 87 of the Local Government Act 1888 for altering the Birmingham (Extension) Order 1911. | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xlvii | 21 November 1918 | |||||
4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. xciv)) | ||||||
Clyde Valley Electrical Power Order 1918 Provisional Order to authorise the Clyde Valley Electrical Power Order Company to raise additional capital and for other purposes. | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xlix | 21 November 1918 | |||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. l | 21 November 1918 | |||||
An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1899 relating to Dunfermline District Water. (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986) | ||||||
Dunfermline District Water Order 1918 Provisional Order to confer further powers on the Dunfermline District Committee of the County Council of the County of Fife and the County Council of the County of Fife in relation to their Water Undertaking under the Dunfermline District Water Orders 1904 and 1913 and for other purposes. | ||||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. li | 21 November 1918 | |||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. lii | 21 November 1918 | |||||
18 & 19 Geo. 5 . c. lxxx)) | ||||||
- 60 & 61 Vict.c. cix)
- 16 & 17 Vict.c. clxvii)
- 55 & 56 Vict.c. cc)
- 30 & 31 Vict.c.cxxxii)
Private and personal acts
| Short title, or popular name | Citation | Royal assent (or the start of session) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long title | ||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 1 | 30 July 1918 | |||
An Act to extend the powers of leasing over an Estate situate in or near Edgbaston in the City of Birmingham and other Estates comprised in or subject to the uses or trusts of a Resettlement made by the late Right Honourable Augustus Cholmondeley Baron Calthorpe. | ||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 2 | 30 July 1918 | |||
An Act to provide for the division of the Testamentary Trusts of the late William Alexander Louis Stephen Duke of Hamilton Brandon and Chatelherault into two separate Trusts and for other purposes. | ||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 3 | 30 July 1918 | |||
An Act to confirm a Resettlement dated the twenty-first day of December on thousand nine hundred and seventeen of the Family Estates of Sir Charles Scarisbrick Knight and for other purposes. | ||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 4 | 21 November 1918 | |||
An Act to confirm upon the trustees of the will and codicils of the late John Graham Smith deceased further powers for the management development and improvement of the estates subject to the trusts of such will and codicils and to extend the time for the exercise of the powers of such trustees and for other purposes. | ||||
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 5 | 30 July 1918 | |||
An Act to dissolve the marriage of Margaret Emma Miles with Thomas Nash Miles her now husband and to enable her to marry again and for other purposes. | ||||
- ^ This act was not printed by the King's Printer
Sources
- 8 & 9 George V - 1918 – via HathiTrust.