List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1987
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This is a list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in 1987.
Acts passed since 1963 are
personal acts. These run as separate series.[3]
88 acts of Parliament were passed in 1987: 57 public general acts, 29 local acts and 2 personal acts.
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Public general acts
| Short title, or popular name | Citation | Urban Development Corporations (Financial Limits) Act 1987 or the Urban Development Corporation (Financial Limits) Act 1987[b] (repealed)   | 1987 c. 57 | 17 December 1987 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
An Act to remove the limit on the amount of grants that may be made to urban development corporations and to provide a new limit applicable only to the amounts for the time being outstanding in respect of sums borrowed by them and sums issued by the Treasury in fulfilment of guarantees of their debts. ) (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2008 | ||||||
Local acts
| Short title, or popular name | Citation | British Waterways Act 1987 | 1987 c. xxviii | 17 December 1987 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
An Act to empower the British Waterways Board to construct works and to acquire lands for the restoration of the canal from Newtown to Frankton Junction; to make further provision with respect to such restoration; and for other purposes. | ||||||
1987 c. xxix | 17 December 1987 | |||||
An Act to empower the British Railways Board to construct works and to purchase or use land; to confer further powers on the Board and on British Rail Pension Trustee Company Limited and British Railways Savings Company Limited; and for other purposes. | ||||||
- ^ 26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 52)
- ^ a b c Although passed in 1987, the short title specifies the year 1986.
- 10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5. c. ix)
- ^ National Provident Institution Act 1964 (c. xxiii)
- ^ Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (c. 30)
Personal acts
| Short title, or popular name | Citation | Royal assent (or the start of session) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long title | ||||
1987 c. 1 | 15 May 1987 | |||
An Act to enable John Ernest Rolfe and Florence Iveen Rolfe to be married to each other. | ||||
1987 c. 2 | 15 May 1987 | |||
An Act to enable George Donald Evans and Deborah Jane Evans to be married to each other. | ||||
See also
References
- Current Law Statutes Annotated 1987. Vol. 1. 1987.
- Current Law Statutes Annotated 1987. Vol. 2. 1987.
- Current Law Statutes Annotated 1987. Vol. 3. 1987.
- Halsbury's Statutes of England. Third Edition. Binder 57: Continuation Binder 1987. Butterworths. London. 1988.
- ^ Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act 1962, 10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 34, s. 1.
- ^ 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.).
- ^ Erskine May, para. 30.75, archived from the original on 9 September 2021, retrieved 9 September 2021.