Statute Law Revision Act 2015

The Statute Law Revision Act 2015 is a Statute Law Revision Act enacted by the Oireachtas in Ireland to review secondary legislation (mainly proclamations and orders) passed from 1066 to 1820. The Act revoked a large number of pieces of secondary legislation of Ireland, England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom while preserving a shorter list of instruments that were deemed suitable for retention.[1]

Statute Law Revision Act 2015
Oireachtas
Long title An Act to promote the revision of statute law by revoking, with the exception of certain instruments, every instrument made before 1 January 1821, to identify those instruments that are not being revoked by this Act, to assign citations to those instruments so as to facilitate their citation, to amend the Statutory Instruments Act 1947, to provide a means by which prima facie evidence of certain instruments may be given, to transfer certain functions under the Statute Law Revision Act 2007 and to provide for related matters.
Citation	No. 23 of 2015
Enacted by	Dáil Éireann
Signed	18 July 2015
Commenced	18 July 2015
Status: Current legislation

The Act is part of the Statute Law Revision Programme which has also seen the enactment of statute law revision legislation between 2005 and 2016.[2] The Act also amended the Statutory Instruments Act 1947 to remove most exemptions from the requirement to publish statutory instruments.[3]