Fires Prevention Act 1785

The Fires Prevention Act 1785[2] or The Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act 1785[3] (25 Geo 3 c 77) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.

Long titleAn Act to amend so much of the Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774, as relates to Manufactories of Turpentine : for extending the provisions of the said Act, so amended, to Manufactories of Pitch, Tar and Turpentine, throughout that part of Great Britain called England.[1]
Citation25 Geo 3 c 77
Status: Repealed

This Act was partly repealed by section 2[4] of the Limitations of Actions and Costs Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict c 97).

The whole Act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 13(2) of, and Part I of Schedule 4 to, the Criminal Law Act 1967.

Title

The title from "and for indemnifying" to the end of the title was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1887.

Preamble

The preamble was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1887.

Section 1

This section from the beginning of the section to "repealed and that", and from "of debt" to "information" and from "at Westminster" to "allowed" was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1887.

In this section, the words of commencement were repealed by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948.

Section 3

This section was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871.

Section 5

This section, from "be it" to "enacted that" was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Part I of the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1888.

Section 4

This section was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871.

Section 6

This section was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1887.

References
  1. These words are printed against this Act in the second column of Schedule 2 to the Statute Law Revision Act 1948, which is headed "Title".
  2. The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  3. The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  4. A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Fifth and Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1842. Queen's Printers. London. 1842. Pages 990 to 991. Digitised copy from Google Books.


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