List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1940–1959
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is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 67", meaning the 67th Act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use
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1940 – 1949


1940


3 & 4 Geo. 6


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4 & 5 Geo. 6


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1941


4 & 5 Geo. 6


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= * Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1941 c. 50 * Air Raid Precautions (Postponement of Financial Investigation) Act 1941 c. 10 * Allied Powers (Maritime Courts) Act 1941 c. 21 * Appropriation Act 1941 c. 38 * Appropriation (No. 2) Act 1941 c. 43 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1941 c. 17 * Chartered and Other Bodies (Temporary Provisions) Act 1941 c. 19 * Colonial War Risks Insurance (Guarantees) Act 1941 c. 35 * Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act 1941 c. 6 * Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1941 c. 9 * Consolidated Fund (No. 3) Act 1941 c. 26 * Determination of Needs Act 1941 c. 11 * Diplomatic Privileges (Extension) Act 1941 c. 7 * Finance Act 1941 c. 30 * Financial Powers (U.S.A. Securities) Act 1941 c. 36 * Fire Services (Emergency Provisions) Act 1941 c. 22 * Goods and Services (Price Control) Act 1941 c. 31 * House of Commons Disqualification (Temporary Provisions) Act 1941 c. 8 * India and Burma (Postponement of Elections) Act 1941 c. 44 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1941 c. 32 * Isle of Man (Detention) Act 1941 c. 16 * Justices (Supplemental List) Act 1941 c. 27 *
Land Drainage (Scotland) Act 1941 Land, also known as dry land, ground, or earth, is the solid terrestrial surface of the planet Earth that is not submerged by the ocean or other body of water, bodies of water. It makes up 29% of Earth's surface and includes the Continent, co ...
c. 13 * Landlord and Tenant (War Damage) (Amendment) Act 1941 c. 41 * Liabilities (War-Time Adjustment) Act 1941 c. 24 * Local Elections and Register of Electors (Temporary Provisions) Act 1941 c. 49 * Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1941 c. 33 * Local Government (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1941 c. 45 * Marriage (Members of His Majesty's Forces) Act 1941 c. 47 * National Health Insurance, Contributory Pensions and Workmen's Compensation Act 1941 c. 39 * National Loans Act 1941 c. 18 * National Service Act 1941 c. 15 * Naval Discipline (Amendment) Act 1941 c. 29 * Pharmacy and Medicines Act 1941 c. 42 * Prolongation of Parliament Act 1941 c. 48 * Public and Other Schools (War Conditions) Act 1941 c. 20 * Public Works Loans Act 1941 c. 14 * Rating (War Damage) (Scotland) Act 1941 c. 25 * Repair of War Damage Act 1941 c. 34 * Solicitors Act 1941 c. 46 * Temporary Migration of Children (Guardianship) Act 1941 c. 23 * Trustee (War Damage Insurance) Act 1941 c. 28 * War Damage Act 1941 c. 12 * War Damage (Extension of Risk Period) Act 1941 c. 37 * War Damage to Land (Scotland) Act 1941 c. 40


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5 & 6 Geo. 6


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1942


5 & 6 Geo. 6


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6 & 7 Geo. 6


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1943


6 & 7 Geo. 6


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= * Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1943 c. 16 * Appropriation Act 1943 c. 31 * Appropriation (No. 2) Act 1943 c. 41 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1943 c. 15 * British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1943 c. 14 * British North America Act 1943 c. 30 * Catering Wages Act 1943 c. 24 * Coal Act 1943 c. 38 * Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act 1943 c. 4 * Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1943 c. 11 * Consolidated Fund (No. 3) Act 1943 c. 20 * Courts (Emergency Powers) Act 1943 c. 19 * Crown Lands Act 1943 c. 7 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1943 c. 37 * Emergency Powers (Isle of Man Defence) Act 1943 c. 36 * Evidence and Powers of Attorney Act 1943 c. 18 * Finance Act 1943 c. 28 * Foreign Service Act 1943 c. 35 * House of Commons Disqualification (Temporary Provisions) Act 1943 c. 10 * Housing (Agricultural Population) (Scotland) Act 1943 c. 22 * Hydro-Electric Development (Scotland) Act 1943 c. 32 * Income Tax (Employments) Act 1943 c. 45 *
Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943 The Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which establishes the rights and liabilities of parties involved in frustrated contracts. It amends previous common law rules on the complete or par ...
c. 40 * Minister of Town and Country Planning Act 1943 c. 5 * National Loans Act 1943 c. 13 * Nurses Act 1943 c. 17 * Nurses (Scotland) Act 1943 c. 33 *
Parliament (Elections and Meeting) Act 1943 In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Th ...
c. 48 * Pensions and Determination of Needs Act 1943 c. 27 * Pensions Appeals Tribunals Act 1943 c. 39 * Police (Appeals) Act 1943 c. 8 * Price Control (Regulation of Disposal of Stocks) Act 1943 c. 47 * Prolongation of Parliament Act 1943 c. 46 * Railway Freight Rebates Act 1943 c. 23 * Regency Act 1943 c. 42 * Rent of Furnished Houses Control (Scotland) Act 1943 c. 44 * Restriction of Ribbon Development (Temporary Development) Act 1943 c. 34 * Town and Country Planning (Interim Development) (Scotland) Act 1943 c. 43 * Settled Land and Trustee Acts (Court's General Powers) Act 1943 c. 25 * Telegraph Act 1943 c. 26 * Town and Country Planning (Interim Development) Act 1943 c. 29 *
Universities and Colleges (Trusts) Act 1943 A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...
c. 9 * War Damage Act 1943 c. 21 * War Damage (Amendment) Act 1943 c. 12 * Workmen's Compensation Act 1943 c. 6 * Workmen's Compensation (Temporary Increases) Act 1943 c. 49


7 & 8 Geo. 6


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1944


7 & 8 Geo. 6


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= * Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1944 c. 28 * Appropriation Act 1944 c. 30 * Appropriation (No. 2) Act 1944 c. 37 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1944 c. 18 * Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act 1944 c. 4 * Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1944 c. 17 * Consolidated Fund (No. 3) Act 1944 c. 20 * Courts (Emergency Powers) (Scotland) Act 1944 c. 6 * Diplomatic Privileges (Extension) Act 1944 c. 44 * Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 c. 10 * Education Act 1944 c. 31 * Finance Act 1944 c. 23 * Food and Drugs (Milk and Dairies) Act 1944 c. 29 * Guardianship (Refugee Children) Act 1944 c. 8 * Herring Industry Act 1944 c. 32 * House of Commons Disqualification (Temporary Provisions) Acts, 1941 to 1944 c. 11 *
House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944 The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944 (7 & 8 Geo.6. c.41) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that established permanent boundary commissions for each of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom, and provide ...
c. 41 * Housing (Scotland) Act 1944 c. 39 *
Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944 The Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (7 & 8 Geo. VI c. 36) which was passed in order to provide solutions to the housing crisis which occurred at the end of World War II. The Act was th ...
c. 36 * Housing (Temporary Provisions) Act 1944 c. 33 * Income Tax (Offices and Employments) Act 1944 c. 12 * India (Attachment of States) Act 1944 c. 14 * India (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1944 c. 38 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1944 c. 27 * Landlord and Tenant (Requisitioned Land) Act 1944 c. 5 * Law Officers Act 1944 c. 25 * Liabilities (War-Time Adjustment) Act 1944 c. 40 * Matrimonial Causes (War Marriages) Act 1944 c. 43 * Ministry of National Insurance Act 1944 c. 46 * National Fire Service Regulations (Indemnity) Act 1944 c. 35 * National Loans Acts, 1939 to 1944 c. 19 * Naval Forces (Extension of Service) Act 1944 c. 13 * Parliamentary Electors (War-Time Registration) Act 1944 c. 24 * Pensions (Increase) Act 1944 c. 21 * Police and Firemen (War Service) Act 1944 c. 22 * Prize Salvage Act 1944 c. 7 * Prolongation of Parliament Act 1944 c. 45 * Public Works Loans Act 1944 c. 16 * Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act 1944 c. 15 * Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944 c. 26 * Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act 1944 c. 9 * Town and Country Planning Act 1944 c. 47 * Unemployment Insurance (Increase of Benefit) Act 1944 c. 42 * Validation of War-time Leases Act 1944 c. 34


8 & 9 Geo. 6


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1945


8 & 9 Geo. 6


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= * Appropriation Act 1945 c. 25 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1945 c. 22 * Camps Act 1945 c. 26 * Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1945 c. 20 * Compensation of Displaced Officers (War Service) Act 1945 c. 10 * Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1945 c. 4 * Consolidated Fund (No. 3) Act 1945 c. 13 * Distribution of Industry Act 1945 c. 36 * Education (Scotland) Act 1945 c. 37 * Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1945 c. 31 * Export Guarantees Act 1945 c. 9 *
Family Allowances Act 1945 The Family Allowances Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. VI c. 41) was a British Act of Parliament and was the first law to provide child benefit in the United Kingdom. It was enacted on 15 June 1945 when the caretaker Conservative government was in office u ...
c. 41 * Finance Act 1945 c. 24 * Forestry Act 1945 c. 35 * Government of Burma (Temporary Provisions) Act 1945 c. 30 * Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1945 c. 39 * Hydro-Electric Undertakings (Valuation for Rating) (Scotland) Act 1945 c. 34 * Income Tax Act 1945 c. 32 * India (Estate Duty) Act 1945 c. 7 * Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945 c. 28 * Liabilities (War-Time Adjustment) (Scotland) Act 1945 c. 29 * Licensing Planning (Temporary Provisions) Act 1945 c. 15 * Limitation (Enemies and War Prisoners) Act 1945 c. 16 * Local Authorities Loans Act 1945 c. 18 * Local Government (Boundary Commission) Act 1945 c. 38 * Ministry of Civil Aviation Act 1945 c. 21 * Ministry of Fuel and Power Act 1945 c. 19 * National Loans Act 1945 c. 23 * Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1945 c. 12 * Nurses Act 1945 c. 6 * Police (His Majesty's Inspectors of Constabulary) Act 1945 c. 11 * Postponement of Polling Day Act 1945 c. 40 * Representation of the People Act 1945 c. 5 * Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1945 c. 43 * Road Transport Lighting (Cycles) Act 1945 c. 8 * Teachers (Superannuation) Act 1945 c. 14 * Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1945 c. 33 * Treason Act 1945 c. 44 * Wages Councils Act 1945 c. 17 * Water Act 1945 c. 42 * Welsh Church (Burial Grounds) Act 1945 c. 27


9 & 10 Geo. 6


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= * Bretton Woods Agreements Act 1945 c. 19 * British Settlements Act 1945 c. 7 * Building Materials and Housing Act 1945 c. 20 * Chartered and Other Bodies (Resumption of Elections) Act 1945 c. 6 * Civil Defence (Suspension of Powers) Act 1945 c. 12 * Coatbridge and Springburn Elections (Validation) Act 1945 c. 3 * Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act 1945 c. 4 * Elections and Jurors Act 1945 c. 21 * Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1945 c. 9 * Finance (No. 2) Act 1945 c. 13 * Indian Divorce Act 1945 c. 5 * Indian Franchise Act 1945 c. 2 * Inshore Fishing Industry Act 1945 c. 11 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1945 c. 14 * Local Elections (Service Abroad) Act 1945 c. 1 * Police (Overseas Service) Act 1945 c. 17 * Public Health (Scotland) Act 1945 c. 15 * Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1945 c. 18 * Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act 1945 c. 10 * War Damage (Valuation Appeals) Act 1945 c. 8 * Workmen's Compensation (Pneumoconiosis) Act 1945 c. 16


1946


9 & 10 Geo. 6


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= * Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 c. 49 * Agricultural Development (Ploughing Up of Land) Act 1946 c. 32 * Agriculture (Artificial Insemination) Act 1946 c. 29 * Appropriation Act 1946 c. 65 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1946 c. 47 * Association of County Councils (Scotland) Act 1946 c. 77 * Assurance Companies Act 1946 c. 28 *
Atomic Energy Act 1946 Atomic may refer to: * Of or relating to the atom, the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties * Atomic physics, the study of the atom * Atomic Age, also known as the "Atomic Era" * Atomic scale, distances comp ...
c. 80 * Bank of England Act 1946 c. 27 * Borrowing (Control and Guarantees) Act 1946 c. 58 *
British Museum Act 1946 The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It documen ...
c. 56 * British North America Act 1946 c. 63 * Building Restrictions (War-Time Contraventions) Act 1946 c. 35 * Burma Legislature Act 1946 c. 57 * Cable and Wireless Act 1946 c. 82 * Camberwell, Bristol and Nottingham Elections (Validation) Act 1946 c. 43 *
Civil Aviation Act 1946 Civil may refer to: * Civic virtue, or civility *Civil action, or lawsuit * Civil affairs *Civil and political rights * Civil disobedience *Civil engineering * Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism *Civilian, someone not a m ...
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Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 The Coal Industry Nationalisation Act of 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6 c. 59) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which nationalised, or brought into state control, the coal industry in the United Kingdom. It established the National Coal B ...
c. 59 * Coinage Act 1946 c. 74 * Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act 1946 c. 33 * Diplomatic Privileges (Extension) Act 1946 c. 66 * Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act 1946 c. 22 * Education Act 1946 c. 50 * Education (Scotland) Act 1946 c. 72 * Emergency Laws (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946 c. 26 * Finance Act 1946 c. 64 *
Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Act 1946 The Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Act 1946 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that and set up rent tribunals to control rents in the private sector. and regulated renting prices. Following the Second World War, the practice of l ...
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Hill Farming Act 1946 The Hill Farming Act 1946 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was passed during the Labour government of Clement Attlee. This Act aimed to encourage the expansion of pastoral farming Pastoral farming (also known in some regio ...
c. 73 * Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946 c. 48 * Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1946 c. 54 * India (Central Government and Legislature) Act 1946 c. 39 * India (Proclamations of Emergency) Act 1946 c. 23 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1946 c. 69 * Licensing Planning (Temporary Provisions) Act 1946 c. 53 * Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1946 c. 24 * Local Government (Financial Provision) (Scotland) Act 1946 c. 25 * Ministerial Salaries Act 1946 c. 55 * Ministers of the Crown (Transfer of Functions) Act 1946 c. 31 * Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act 1946 c. 40 * National Health Service Act 1946 c. 81 *
National Insurance Act 1946 The National Insurance Act 1946 (c 67) was a British Act of Parliament passed during the Attlee ministry which established a comprehensive system of social security throughout the United Kingdom. The act meant that all who were of working age we ...
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National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 The National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 was a British Act of Parliament which provided compensation paid by the Ministry of National Insurance to workers who were left injured or disabled as a result of work-related accidents. The Act ...
c. 62 * National Service (Release of Conscientious Objectors) Act 1946 c. 38 *
New Towns Act 1946 The New Towns Acts were a series of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to found new settlements or to expand substantially existing ones, to establish Development Corporations to deliver them, and to create a Commission to wind up the ...
c. 68 *
Patents and Designs Act 1946 A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...
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Police Act 1946 The Police Act 1946 (1946 c.46) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that provided for the amalgamation of smaller borough police forces with county constabularies in England and Wales, allowed for the merger of county ...
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Police (Scotland) Act 1946 The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and th ...
c. 71 * Post Office and Telegraph (Money) Act 1946 c. 51 * Public Notaries (War Service of Articled Clerks) Act 1946 c. 79 * Public Works Loans Act 1946 c. 41 * Public Works Loans (No. 2) Act 1946 c. 75 * Railways (Valuation for Rating) Act 1946 c. 61 * Roosevelt Memorial Act 1946 c. 83 * Statutory Instruments Act 1946 c. 36 * Straits Settlements (Repeal) Act 1946 c. 37 * Superannuation Act 1946 c. 60 * Supreme Court of Judicature (Circuit Officers) Act 1946 c. 78 * Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1946 c. 52 * Trunk Roads Act 1946 c. 30 * Unemployment Insurance (Eire Volunteers) Act 1946 c. 76 *
United Nations Act 1946 The United Nations Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6 c. 45) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which enables His Majesty's Government to implement resolutions under Article 41 of the United Nations Charter as Orders in Council. Thus Parli ...
c. 45 * Water (Scotland) Act 1946 c. 42


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10 & 11 Geo. 6


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1947


10 & 11 Geo. 6


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= * Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947 c. 35 *
Agriculture Act 1947 The Agriculture Act 1947 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom passed by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government. Background The government wanted a positive balance of payments, to lower the amount of food imported into Britain f ...
c. 48 * Agriculture (Emergency Payments) Act 1947 c. 32 * Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act 1947 c. 15 * Air Navigation Act 1947 c. 18 * Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1947 c. 11 * Appropriation Act 1947 c. 52 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1947 c. 25 * Births and Deaths Registration Act 1947 c. 12 * Civic Restaurants Act 1947 c. 22 * Companies Act 1947 c. 47 * Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act 1947 c. 17 * Cotton (Centralised Buying) Act 1947 c. 26 *
Crown Proceedings Act 1947 The Crown Proceedings Act 1947 (c. 44) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed, for the first time, civil actions against the Crown to be brought in the same way as against any other party. The Act also reasserted the comm ...
c. 44 * County Councils Association Expenses (Amendment) Act 1947 c. 13 * Dog Racecourse Betting (Temporary Provisions) Act 1947 c. 20 * Education (Exemptions) (Scotland) Act 1947 c. 36 *
Electricity Act 1947 The Electricity Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 54.) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which nationalised, or bought into state control, the electricity supply industry in Great Britain. It established a central authority called t ...
c. 54 * Exchange Control Act 1947 c. 14 * Finance Act 1947 c. 35 *
Fire Services Act 1947 The Fire Services Act 1947 was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that reorganised fire services in the United Kingdom. It disbanded the National Fire Service and returned the responsibility for running fire services to local authoriti ...
c. 41 * Foreign Marriage Act 1947 c. 33 * Forestry Act 1947 c. 21 * Greenwich Hospital Act 1947 c. 5 * House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1947 c. 10 *
Indian Independence Act 1947 The Indian Independence Act 1947 947 CHAPTER 30 10 and 11 Geo 6is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan. The Act received Royal Assent on 18 Ju ...
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Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947 The Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947 ( 10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 40) enabled the creation of industrial development boards with powers to raise levies from specific industrial sectors in the United Kingdom for co-ordinated action, partic ...
c. 40 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1947 c. 50 * Isle of Man Harbours Act 1947 c. 28 *
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6 c. 65) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that reformed local government in Scotland, on 1 October 1947. Section 1 of the Act reads "For the purposes of local government, ...
c. 43 * Malta (Reconstruction) Act 1947 c. 9 *
National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947 The National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947 came into effect on 5 July 1948 and created the National Health Service in Scotland. Though the title 'National Health Service' implies one health service for the United Kingdom, in reality one NHS ...
c. 27 * National Service Act 1947 c. 31 * Naval Forces (Enforcement of Maintenance Liabilities) Act 1947 c. 24 * Northern Ireland Act 1947 c. 37 * Penicillin Act 1947 c. 29 *
Pensions (Increase) Act 1947 The Pensions (Increase) Act 1947 was an Act of Parliament, Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was passed during the Labour Party (UK), Labour government of Clement Attlee. It substantially raised the benefit rates for pensioners. Re ...
c. 7 * Polish Resettlement Act 1947 c. 19 * Probation Officers (Superannuation) Act 1947 c. 38 * Public Offices (Site) Act 1947 c. 45 * Road Traffic (Driving Licences) Act 1947 c. 8 * Statistics of Trade Act 1947 c. 39 * Summer Time Act 1947 c. 16 * Supplies and Services (Extended Purposes) Act 1947 c. 55 *
Town and Country Planning Act 1947 The Town and Country Planning Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. VI c. 51) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom passed by the Labour government led by Clement Attlee. It came into effect on 1 July 1948, and along with the Town and Country Plannin ...
c. 51 * Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1947 c. 53 * Trafalgar Estates Act 1947 c. 34 *
Transport Act 1947 The Transport Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6 c. 49) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Under the terms of the Act, the railway network, long-distance road haulage and various other types of transport were nationalised and came under ...
c. 49 * Treaties of Peace (Italy, Roumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland) Act 1947 c. 23 * Trustee Savings Banks Act 1947 c. 6 * Wellington Museum Act 1947 c. 46


11 & 12 Geo. 6


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1948


11 & 12 Geo. 6


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= * Agricultural Holdings Act 1948 c. 63 * Agricultural Wages Act 1948 c. 47 * Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 c. 45 * Animals Act 1948 c. 35 * Appropriation Act 1948 c. 50 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1948 c. 28 * Army and Air Force (Women's Service) Act 1948 c. 21 * Attempted Rape Act 1948 c. 19 *
British Nationality Act 1948 The British Nationality Act 1948 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on British nationality law which defined British nationality by creating the status of "Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies" (CUKC) as the sole national ci ...
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Children Act 1948 The Children Act 1948 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that established a comprehensive childcare Child care, otherwise known as day care, is the care and supervision of a child or multiple children at a time, whose ages range fr ...
c. 43 * Cinematograph Films Act 1948 c. 23 * Civil Defence Act 1948 c. 5 *
Companies Act 1948 The Companies Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo.6 c.38) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which regulated UK company law. Its descendant is the Companies Act 2006. Cases decided under this Act *''Bushell v Faith'' 970AC 1099 *''Scottish ...
c. 38 * Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act 1948 c. 18 * Cotton Spinning (Re-equipment Subsidy) Act 1948 c. 31 *
Criminal Justice Act 1948 The Criminal Justice Act 1948 () is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Overview It is "one of the most important measures relating to the reform of the criminal law and its administration". It abolished: * penal servitude, har ...
c. 58 * Development of Inventions Act 1948 c. 60 * Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 c. 40 * Employment and Training Act 1948 c. 46 * Export Guarantees Act 1948 c. 54 * Factories Act 1948 c. 55 * Finance Act 1948 c. 49 *
Gas Act 1948 The Gas Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 67) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which nationalised, or bought into state control, the gas making and supply industry in Great Britain. It established 12 Area Gas Boards to own and ope ...
c. 67 *
House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1948 A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...
c. 36 * Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948 c. 39 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1948 c. 61 * Law Reform (Personal Injuries) Act 1948 c. 41 * Laying of Documents before Parliament (Interpretation) Act 1948 c. 59 *
Local Government Act 1948 The Local Government Act 1948 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was passed during the Labour government of Clement Attlee. This Act provided for general unearmarked grants to be provided to local authorities “as nearly as p ...
c. 26 * Lord High Commissioner (Church of Scotland) Act 1948 c. 30 * Merchant Shipping Act 1948 c. 44 *
Monopolies and Restrictive Practices (Inquiry and Control) Act 1948 A monopoly (from Greek language, Greek el, μόνος, mónos, single, alone, label=none and el, πωλεῖν, pōleîn, to sell, label=none), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situati ...
c. 66 *
Motor Spirit (Regulation) Act 1948 Fuel dyes are dyes added to fuels, as in some countries it is required by law to dye a low-tax fuel to deter its use in applications intended for higher-taxed ones. Untaxed fuels are referred to as "dyed", while taxed ones are called "clear" or " ...
c. 34 *
National Assistance Act 1948 The National Assistance Act 1948 is an Act of Parliament passed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Clement Attlee. It formally abolished the Poor Law system that had existed since the reign of Elizabeth I, and established a social ...
c. 29 * National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1948 c. 42 * National Service Act 1948 c. 64 *
Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act 1948 The Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act 1948 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Ove ...
c. 53 * Overseas Resources Development Act 1948 c. 15 * Palestine Act 1948 c. 27 * Police Pensions Act 1948 c. 24 * Post Office and Telegraph (Money) Act 1948 c. 16 * Princess Elizabeth's and Duke of Edinburgh's Annuities Act 1948 c. 14 * Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948 c. 57 * Public Works Loans Act 1948 c. 48 * Radioactive Substances Act 1948 c. 37 *
Representation of the People Act 1948 The Representation of the People Act 1948 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered the law relating to parliamentary and local elections. It is noteworthy for abolishing plural voting for parliamentary elections, including ...
c. 65 * Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948 c. 17 * River Boards Act 1948 c. 32 * Royal Marines Act 1948 c. 25 * Statute Law Revision Act 1948 c. 62 * Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 c. 33 * Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act 1948 c. 20 * Veterinary Surgeons Act 1948 c. 52 * Water Act 1948 c. 22 * White Fish and Herring Industries Act 1948 c. 51


12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6


=Public general acts

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1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6)


Public General Acts

*
Adoption of Children Act 1949 The Adoption of Children Act 1949 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This legislation liberalised various rules concerning adoption Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, fro ...
c. 98 * Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949 c. 75 * Agricultural Marketing Act 1949 c. 38 * Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1949 c. 37 * Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act 1949 c. 30 * Air Corporations Act 1949 c. 91 * Airways Corporations Act 1949 c. 57 * American Aid and European Payments (Financial Provisions) Act 1949 c. 17 * Appropriation Act 1949 c. 48 * Armed Forces (Housing Loans) Act 1949 c. 77 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1949 c. 28 *
Auxiliary and Reserve Forces Act 1949 Auxiliary may refer to: * A backup site or system In language * Auxiliary language (disambiguation) * Auxiliary verb In military and law enforcement * Auxiliary police * Auxiliaries, civilians or quasi-military personnel who provide support of ...
c. 96 * British Film Institute Act 1949 c. 35 * British North America Act 1949 c. 22 ''(known in
Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
as the
Newfoundland Act The Newfoundland Act was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that confirmed and gave effect to the Terms of Union agreed to between the then-separate Dominions of Canada and Newfoundland on March 23, 1949. It was originally titled th ...
)'' * British North America (No. 2) Act 1949 c. 81 * British Transport Commission Act 1949 c. 29 *
Cinematograph Film Production (Special Loans) Act 1949 Cinematograph or kinematograph is an early term for several types of motion picture film mechanisms. The name was used for movie cameras as well as film projectors, or for complete systems that also provided means to print films (such as the Cin ...
c. 20 * Civil Aviation Act 1949 c. 67 * Coal Industry Act 1949 c. 53 * Coal Industry (No. 2) Act 1949 c. 79 * Coast Protection Act 1949 c. 74 * Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1949 c. 49 * Colonial Loans Act 1949 c. 50 * Colonial Naval Defence Act 1949 c. 18 * Commonwealth Telegraphs Act 1949 c. 39 * Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act 1949 c. 24 * Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act 1949 c. 33 * Consular Conventions Act 1949 c. 29 *
Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1949 Criminal justice is the delivery of justice to those who have been accused of committing crimes. The criminal justice system is a series of government agencies and institutions. Goals include the rehabilitation of offenders, preventing other ...
c. 94 * Distribution of German Enemy Property Act 1949 c. 85 * Docking and Nicking of Horses Act 1949 c. 70 * Education (Scotland) Act 1949 c. 19 *
Election Commissioners Act 1949 An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...
c. 90 * Electoral Registers Act 1949 c. 86 * Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1949 c. 71 * Export Guarantees Act 1949 c. 14 * Festival of Britain (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1949 c. 102 * Finance Act 1949 c. 47 * House of Commons (Indemnification of Certain Members) Act 1949 c. 46 *
House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that provided for the periodic review of the number and boundaries of parliamentary constituencies. The Act amended the rules for the dist ...
c. 66 * Housing Act 1949 c. 60 * Housing (Scotland) Act 1949 c. 61 * India (Consequential Provision) Act 1949 c. 92 *
Ireland Act 1949 The Ireland Act 1949 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom intended to deal with the consequences of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948 as passed by the Irish parliament, the Oireachtas. Background Following the secession of most ...
c. 41 * Iron and Steel Act 1949 c. 72 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1949 c. 58 * Juries Act 1949 c. 27 *
Justices of the Peace Act 1949 A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. A judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers or solicitors of the case, assesses the credibility a ...
c. 101 * Landlord and Tenant (Rent Control) Act 1949 c. 40 * Lands Tribunal Act 1949 c. 42 * Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1949 c. 100 *
Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 The Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 was a British Act of Parliament Acts of Parliament, sometimes referred to as primary legislation, are texts of law passed by the legislative body of a jurisdiction (often a parliament or council). In most countri ...
c. 51 * Legal Aid and Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1949 c. 63 * Licensing Act 1949 c. 59 * Local Government Boundary Commission (Dissolution) Act 1949 c. 83 *
Marriage Act 1949 The Marriage Act 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo 6 c 76) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regulating marriages in England and Wales. The Act had prohibited solemnizing marriages during evenings and at night. Since the Marriage Act 1836 i ...
c. 76 * Married Women (Maintenance) Act 1949 c. 99 * Married Women (Restraint upon Anticipation) Act 1949 c. 78 * Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 c. 43 * Milk (Special Designations) Act 1949 c. 34 * Minister of Food (Financial Powers) Act 1949 c. 15 * National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1949 c. 93 * National Insurance Act 1949 c. 56 *
National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which created the National Parks Commission which later became the Countryside Commission and then the Countryside Agency, which became ...
c. 97 * National Theatre Act 1949 c. 16 * New Forest Act 1949 c. 69 * Nurses Act 1949 c. 73 * Nurses (Scotland) Act 1949 c. 95 * Overseas Resources Development Act 1949 c. 65 *
Parliament Act 1949 The Parliament Act 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6 c. 103) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It reduced the power of the House of Lords to delay certain types of legislation – specifically public bills other than money bills &n ...
c. 103 * Patents Act 1949 c. 87 * Patents and Designs Act 1949 c. 62 * Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1949 c. 12 * Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949 c. 55 * Profits Tax Act 1949 c. 64 * Public Works (Festival of Britain) Act 1949 c. 26 * Public Works Loans Act 1949 c. 82 * Railway and Canal Commission (Abolition) Act 1949 c. 11 *
Registered Designs Act 1949 The Registered Designs, Act, 1949 (12, 13 and 14 Geo. 6 c. 88) is an act in the United Kingdom concerning copyright and related rights, industrial designs, patents, protection of undisclosed information. The purpose of the act was to consolidate ...
c. 88 *
Representation of the People Act 1949 The Representation of the People Act 1949 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act consolidated previous electoral law, but also made some changes to administration. Representation of the People amendments followed in 1969, 19 ...
c. 68 * Savings Banks Act 1949 c. 13 * Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act 1949 c. 52 * Social Services (Northern Ireland Agreement) Act 1949 c. 23 * Solicitors, Public Notaries, &c. Act 1949 c. 21 * Special Roads Act 1949 c. 32 * Superannuation Act 1949 c. 44 * Telegraph Act 1949 c. 80 * Tenancy of Shops (Scotland) Act 1949 c. 25 * U.S.A. Veterans' Pensions (Administration) Act 1949 c. 45 * Vehicles (Excise) Act 1949 c. 89 * War Damage (Public Utility Undertakings, &c.) Act 1949 c. 36 * War Damaged Sites Act 1949 c. 84 * Water (Scotland) Act 1949 c. 31 *
Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the telecommunication, transfer of information between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided transmission med ...
c. 54


1950 – 1959


1950


14 Geo. 6


=Public General Acts

= * Adoption Act 1950 c. 26 * Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1950 c. 17 * Air Force Reserve Act 1950 c. 33 * Allotments Act 1950 c. 31 * Allotments (Scotland) Act 1950 c. 38 * Appropriation Act, 1950 c. 16 * Arbitration Act 1950 c. 27 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1950 c. 3 * Army Reserve Act 1950 c. 32 * Cinematograph Film Production (Special Loans) Act 1950 c. 18 * Coal-Mining (Subsidence) Act 1950 c. 23 * Colonial and Other Territories (Divorce Jurisdiction) Act 1950 c. 20 * Consolidated Fund Act 1950 c. 1 * Diplomatic Privileges (Extension) Act 1950 c. 7 * Diseases of Animals Act 1950 c. 36 * Distribution of Industry Act 1950 c. 8 * Finance Act 1950 c. 15 *
Foreign Compensation Act 1950 Foreign may refer to: Government * Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries * Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in many countries ** Foreign Office, a department of the UK government ** Foreign office and foreign minister * Unit ...
c. 12 * High Court and County Court Judges Act 1950 c. 4 * Highways (Provision of Cattle Grids) Act 1950 c. 24 * Housing (Scotland) Act 1950 c. 34 * International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Act 1950 c. 14 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1950 c. 19 * London Government Act 1950 c. 22 * Maintenance Orders Act 1950 c. 37 * Matrimonial Causes Act 1950 c. 25 * Medical Act 1950 c. 29 * Merchant Shipping Act 1950 c. 9 * Midwives (Amendment) Act 1950 c. 13 * Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act 1950 c. 21 * National Service Act 1950 c. 30 * Newfoundland (Consequential Provisions) Act 1950 c. 5 * Post Office and Telegraph (Money) Act 1950 c. 2 * Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1950 c. 11 * Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950 c. 39 * Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation Act 1950 c. 10 *
Shops Act 1950 The Shops Act 1950 was an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which was repealed on 1 December 1994 by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994. The introductory text describes it as "An Act to consolidate the Shops ...
c. 28 *
Statute Law Revision Act 1950 The Statute Law Revision Act 1950 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This Act was partly in force in Great Britain at the end of 2010. The enactments which were repealed (whether for the whole or any part of the United Kingdom) ...
c. 6


14 & 15 Geo. 6


=Public general acts

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1951


14 & 15 Geo. 6


=Public General Acts

= * Alkali, &c., Works Regulation (Scotland) Act 1951 c. 21 * Appropriation Act 1951 c. 44 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1951 c. 24 * British North America Act 1951 c. 32 * Coal Industry Act 1951 c. 41 *
Common Informers Act 1951 The Common Informers Act 1951 (14 & 15 Geo. 6, c. 39) is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament that abolishes the principle of, and procedures concerning a common informer. Background A common informer was a person who provided evidence on cri ...
c. 39 * Consolidated Fund Act 1951 c. 12 * Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1951 c. 16 * Consolidated Fund (Civil List Provisions) Act 1951 c. 50 *
Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act 1951 A court-martial or court martial (plural ''courts-martial'' or ''courts martial'', as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court. A court-martial is empowered to determine the guilt of memb ...
c. 46 *
Criminal Law Amendment Act 1951 In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Ca ...
c. 36 * Dangerous Drugs Act 1951 c. 48 * Export Guarantees Act 1951 c. 17 * Festival of Britain (Additional Loans) Act 1951 c. 47 * Festival of Britain (Sunday Opening) Act 1951 c. 14 * Finance Act 1951 c. 43 * Fireworks Act 1951 c. 58 * Fire Services Act 1951 c. 27 * Forestry Act 1951 c. 61 *
Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 The Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 was a law in England and Wales which prohibited a person from claiming to be a psychic, medium, or other spiritualist while attempting to deceive and to make money from the deception (other than solely for the pu ...
c. 33 * Guardianship and Maintenance of Infants Act 1951 c. 56 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1951 c. 51 * Leasehold Property (Temporary Provisions) Act 1951 c. 38 * Livestock Rearing Act 1951 c. 18 * Local Government (Scotland) Act 1951 c. 15 * Long Leases (Temporary Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1951 c. 28 * Midwives Act 1951 c. 53 * Midwives (Scotland) Act 1951 c. 54 * Mineral Workings Act 1951 c. 60 * Ministry of Materials Act 1951 c. 42 * National Assistance (Amendment) Act 1951 c. 57 * National Health Service Act 1951 c. 31 * National Insurance Act 1951 c. 34 * New Streets Act 1951 c. 40 * Nurses (Scotland) Act 1951 c. 55 * Overseas Resources Development Act 1951 c. 20 * Penicillin (Merchant Ships) Act 1951 c. 13 *
Pet Animals Act 1951 A pet, or companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal. Popular pets are often considered to have attractive appearances, intelligence, ...
c.35 * Price Control and other Orders (Indemnity) Act 1951 c. 59 * Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act 1951 c. 63 * Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951 c. 65 * Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Training) Act 1951 c. 23 * Reverend J. G. MacManaway's Indemnity Act 1951 c. 29 *
Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1951 A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wa ...
c. 64 * Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951 c. 66 * Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1951 c. 45 * Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Protection) (Scotland) Act 1951 c. 26 * Sea Fish Industry Act 1951 c. 30 * Slaughter of Animals (Amendment) Act 1951 c. 49 * Supplies and Services (Defence Purposes) Act 1951 c. 25 * Telegraph Act 1951 c. 37 * Telephone Act 1951 c. 52 * Tithe Act 1951 c. 62 * Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Act 1951 c. 19 *
Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) Act 1951 The Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) Act 1951 was an Act of Parliament, Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was passed during the Labour government of Clement Attlee. It tackled the problem of the "pre-1924" compensation cases b ...
c. 22


=Local acts

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15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2


=Public general acts

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1952


15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2


=Public General Acts

= * Affiliation Orders Act 1952 c. 41 * Agriculture (Fertilisers) Act 1952 c. 15 * Agriculture (Ploughing Grants) Act 1952 c. 35 * Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Act 1952 c. 60 * Appropriation Act 1952 c. 38 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1952 c. 24 * Children and Young Persons (Amendment) Act 1952 c. 50 * Cinematograph Act 1952 c. 68 * Cinematograph Film Production (Special Loans) Act 1952 c. 20 * Civil List Act 1952 c. 37 * Cockfighting Act 1952 c. 59 * Consolidated Fund Act 1952 c. 16 * Corneal Grafting Act 1952 c. 28 * Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1952 c. 48 *
Court of Chancery of Lancaster Act 1952 A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance ...
c. 49 * Cremation Act 1952 c. 31 * Crown Lessees (Protection of Sub-Tenants) Act 1952 c. 40 * Customs and Excise Act 1952 c. 44 *
Defamation Act 1952 The Defamation Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo 6 & 1 Eliz 2 c 66) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This Act implemented recommendations contained in the Report of the Porter Committee. The recommendation made by the Committee in relatio ...
c. 66 * Diplomatic Immunities (Commonwealth Countries and Republic of Ireland) Act 1952 c. 18 * Disposal of Uncollected Goods Act 1952 c. 43 * Distribution of German Enemy Property Act 1952 c. 30 * Electricity Supply (Meters) Act 1952 c. 32 * Empire Settlement Act 1952 c. 26 * Export Guarantees Act 1952 c. 21 * Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1952 c. 29 * Festival Pleasure Gardens Act 1952 c. 13 * Finance Act 1952 c. 33 * Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Act 1952 c. 42 * Housing Act 1952 c. 53 * Housing (Scotland) Act 1952 c. 63 * Hydro-Electric Development (Scotland) Act 1952 c. 22 * Hypnotism Act 1952 c. 46 * Income Tax Act 1952 c. 10 *
Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1952 Industrial may refer to: Industry * Industrial archaeology, the study of the history of the industry * Industrial engineering, engineering dealing with the optimization of complex industrial processes or systems * Industrial city, a city dominate ...
c. 17 * Insurance Contracts (War Settlement) Act 1952 c. 56 * Intestates' Estates Act 1952 c. 64 * Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust Act 1952 c. 58 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1952 c. 51 * Judicial Offices (Salaries, &c.) Act 1952 c. 12 * Licensed Premises in New Towns Act 1952 c. 65 *
Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 The Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo 6 & 1 Eliz c 55) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which related to magistrates' courts. It was repealed by section 154 of, and Schedule 9 to, the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980. Se ...
c. 55 * Marine and Aviation Insurance (War Risks) Act 1952 c. 57 * Merchant Shipping Act 1952 c. 14 *
Metropolitan Police (Borrowing Powers) Act 1952 The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and the prevention of crime in Greater London. In addition, it is responsible for some specialised matters throughout the United Kingdom, ...
c. 19 * Miners' Welfare Act 1952 c. 23 * Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Act 1952 c. 39 * National Health Service Act 1952 c. 25 * New Towns Act 1952 c. 27 *
Northern Ireland (Foyle Fisheries) Act 1952 Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
c. 11 * Pensions (Increase) Act 1952 c. 45 * Post Office (Amendment) Act 1952 c. 36 * Post Office and Telegraph (Money) Act 1952 c. 34 * Prison Act 1952 c. 52 * Rating and Valuation (Scotland) Act 1952 c. 47 *
Town Development Act 1952 The New Towns Acts were a series of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to found new settlements or to expand substantially existing ones, to establish Development Corporations to deliver them, and to create a Commission to wind up the C ...
c. 54 *
Visiting Forces Act 1952 The Visiting Forces Act 1952 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.Section 3provides immunity against prosecution for certain offences in the courts of United Kingdom by members of visiting forces and, by virtue of the 1964 Act, in ...
c. 67


=Local acts

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1 & 2 Eliz. 2


=Public General Acts

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1953


1 & 2 Eliz. 2


=Public General Acts

= * Accommodation Agencies Act 1953 c. 23 * Agricultural Land (Removal of Surface Soil) Act 1953 c. 10 * Appropriation Act 1953 c. 35 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1953 c. 31 * Auxiliary Forces Act 1953 c. 50 * Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 c. 20 * Coastal Flooding (Emergency Provisions) Act 1953 c. 18 * Consolidated Fund Act 1953 c. 6 * Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1953 c. 8 * Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953 c. 28 * Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 c. 33 * Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 c. 47 * Enemy Property Act 1953 c. 52 * Finance Act 1953 c. 34 * Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1953 c. 11 * Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953 c. 49 * Hospital Endowments (Scotland) Act 1953 c. 41 * Iron and Steel Act 1953 c. 15 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1953 c. 44 * Law Reform (Personal Injuries) (Amendment) Act 1953 c. 7 * Leasehold Property Act and Long Leases (Scotland) Act Extension Act 1953 c. 12 * Licensing Act 1953 c. 46 * Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 c. 26 * Local Government Superannuation Act 1953 c. 25 * Marshall Aid Commemoration Act 1953 c. 39 * Merchandise Marks Act 1953 c. 48 * Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Commission Act 1953 c. 51 * National Insurance Act 1953 c. 29 * National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1953 c. 43 * Navy and Marines (Wills) Act 1953 c. 24 * New Towns Act 1953 c. 38 * Pharmacy Act 1953 c. 19 *
Post Office Act 1953 Post or POST commonly refers to: *Mail, the postal system, especially in Commonwealth of Nations countries **An Post, the Irish national postal service **Canada Post, Canadian postal service **Deutsche Post, German postal service **Iraqi Post, Ira ...
c. 36 *
Prevention of Crime Act 1953 The Prevention of Crime Act 1953 (C.14) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that restricts the carrying of offensive weapons in public. The Act was passed in response to the large rise in violent crime in the United Kingdom, with ...
c. 14 *
Registration Service Act 1953 Register or registration may refer to: Arts entertainment, and media Music * Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc. * ''Register'', a 2017 album by Travis Miller * Registration (organ), th ...
c. 37 * Rhodesia and Nyasaland Federation Act 1953 c. 30 * Road Transport Lighting Act 1953 c. 21 * Road Transport Lighting (No. 2) Act 1953 c. 22 * Royal Titles Act 1953 c. 9 * School Crossing Patrols Act 1953 c. 45 * Slaughter of Animals (Pigs) Act 1953 c. 27 * Therapeutic Substances (Prevention of Misuse) Act 1953 c. 32 * Town and Country Planning Act 1953 c. 16 * Transport Act 1953 c. 13 * University of St. Andrews Act 1953 c. 40 * Valuation for Rating Act 1953 c. 42 * White Fish and Herring Industries Act 1953 c. 17


=Private and personal act

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2 & 3 Eliz. 2


=Public general acts

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1954


2 & 3 Eliz. 2


=Public General Acts

= * Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954 c. 39 * Appropriation Act 1954 c. 45 * Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1954 c. 35 *
Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954 The Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which established the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority with powers to produce, use and dispose of atomic energy and to carry out research into this and r ...
c. 32 * Baking Industry (Hours of Work) Act 1954 c. 57 ''(commonly known as the Night Baking Act)'' * British Industries Fair (Guarantees and Grants) Act 1954 c. 26 * Charitable Trusts (Validation) Act 1954 c. 58 * Cinematograph Film Production (Special Loans) Act 1954 c. 15 * Civil Defence (Armed Forces) Act 1954 c. 66 * Civil Defence (Electricity Undertakings) Act 1954 c. 19 * Consolidated Fund Act 1954 c. 22 * Coroners Act 1954 c. 31 * Cotton Act 1954 c. 24 *
Currency and Bank Notes Act 1954 A currency, "in circulation", from la, currens, -entis, literally meaning "running" or "traversing" is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. A more general def ...
c. 12 * Development of Inventions Act 1954 c. 20 *
Electricity Reorganisation (Scotland) Act 1954 Electricity is the set of physics, physical Phenomenon, phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagne ...
c. 60 * Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1954 c. 69 * Finance Act 1954 c. 44 * Food and Drugs Amendment Act 1954 c. 67 * Gas and Electricity (Borrowing Powers) Act 1954 c. 52 * Hill Farming Act 1954 c. 23 *
Hire-Purchase Act 1954 A hire purchase (HP), also known as an installment plan, is an arrangement whereby a customer agrees to a contract to acquire an asset by paying an initial installment (e.g., 40% of the total) and repaying the balance of the price of the asset pl ...
c. 51 * Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954 c. 53 * Housing (Repairs and Rents) (Scotland) Act 1954 c. 50 * Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Act 1954 c. 43 * Industrial Diseases (Benefit) Act 1954 c. 16 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1954 c. 54 * Judges' Remuneration Act 1954 c. 27 * Juries Act 1954 c. 41 * Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 c. 56 * Law Reform (Enforcement of Contracts) Act 1954 c. 34 *
Law Reform (Limitation of Actions, etc.) Act 1954 Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...
c. 36 * Licensing (Seamen's Canteens) Act 1954 c. 11 * Local Government (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1954 c. 13 * Long Leases (Scotland) Act 1954 c. 49 * Marriage Act 1949 (Amendment) Act 1954 c. 47 * Merchant Shipping Act 1954 c. 18 * Mines and Quarries Act 1954 c. 70 *
National Gallery and Tate Gallery Act 1954 The National Gallery and Tate Gallery Act 1954 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (2 & 3 Eliz II c. 65). The Act came into force in 1955. It created a legal separation between the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery and establis ...
c. 65 * National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland Act 1954 c. 14 * Navy, Army and Air Force Reserves Act 1954 c. 10 * Niall Macpherson Indemnity Act 1954 c. 29 * Overseas Resources Development Act 1954 c. 71 * Pensions (Increase) Act 1954 c. 25 * Pests Act 1954 c. 68 * Pharmacy Act 1954 c. 61 * Pool Betting Act 1954 c. 33 * Post Office Savings Bank Act 1954 c. 62 * Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act 1954 c. 40 * Protection of Animals (Anaesthetics) Act 1954 c. 46 *
Protection of Birds Act 1954 Protection is any measure taken to guard a thing against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Although th ...
c. 30 * Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954 c. 21 * Royal Irish Constabulary (Widows' Pensions) Act 1954 c. 17 * Slaughter of Animals (Amendment) Act 1954 c. 59 * Slaughterhouses Act 1954 c. 42 * Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act 1954 c. 48 * Superannuation (President of Industrial Court) Act 1954 c. 37 * Supreme Court Officers (Pensions) Act 1954 c. 38 * Telegraph Act 1954 c. 28 *
Television Act 1954 The Television Act 1954 was a British law which permitted the creation of the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom, ITV. Until the early 1950s, the only television service in Britain was operated as a monopoly by the Briti ...
c. 55 * Town and Country Planning Act 1954 c. 72 * Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1954 c. 73 * Transport Charges &c. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954 c. 64 * Trustee Savings Banks Act 1954 c. 63


=Private and personal acts

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3 & 4 Eliz. 2


=Public general acts

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1955


3 & 4 Eliz. 2


=Public General Acts

= *
Air Force Act 1955 The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, known collectively as air, retained by Earth's gravity that surrounds the planet and forms its planetary atmosphere. The atmosphere of Earth protects life on Earth by creating pressure allowing for ...
c. 19 * Aliens' Employment Act 1955 * Appropriation Act 1955 c. 16 * Army Act 1955 c. 18 * British Museum Act 1955 c. 23 * Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act 1955 c. 28 * Cocos Islands Act 1955 c. 5 * Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1955 c. 6 * Consolidated Fund Act 1955 c. 3 *
Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955 A croft is a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon. A crofter is one who has tenure and use of the land, typically as a tenant farmer, especially in rural are ...
c. 21 * Finance Act 1955 c. 15 * Fisheries Act 1955 c. 7 * Imperial War Museum Act 1955 c. 14 * Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1955 c. 17 * National Insurance Act 1955 c. 29 * National Service Act 1955 c. 11 * New Towns Act 1955 c. 4 * Northern Ireland Act 1955 c. 8 * Oil in Navigable Waters Act 1955 c. 25 * Pensions (India, Pakistan and Burma) Act 1955 c. 22 * Public Libraries (Scotland) Act 1955 c. 27 * Public Service Vehicles (Travel Concessions) Act 1955 c. 26 * Public Works Loans Act 1955 c. 9 * Requisitioned Houses and Housing (Amendment) Act 1955 c. 24 * Revision of the Army and Air Force Acts (Transitional Provisions) Act 1955 c. 20 * Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1955 c. 13 * Transport (Borrowing Powers) Act 1955 c. 10 * Trustee Savings Banks (Pensions) Act 1955 c. 12


4 & 5 Eliz. 2


=Public General Acts

= * Agriculture (Improvement of Roads) Act 1955 c. 20 * Aliens' Employment Act 1955 c. 18 * Appropriation (No. 2) Act 1955 c. 3 * Austrian State Treaty Act 1955 c. 1 * County Courts Act 1955 c. 8 * Diplomatic Immunities Restriction Act 1955 c. 21 * European Coal and Steel Community Act 1955 c. 4 * Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1955 c. 22 * Finance (No. 2) Act 1955 c. 17 * Food and Drugs Act 1955 c. 16 * Friendly Societies Act 1955 c. 19 * German Conventions Act 1955 c. 2 * International Finance Corporation Act 1955 c. 5 * Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act 1955 c. 6 * Post Office and Telegraph (Money) Act 1955 c. 14 * Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1955 c. 9 * Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage (No. 2) Act 1955 c. 15 * Sudan (Special Payments) Act 1955 c. 11 * Validation of Elections Act 1955 c. 10 * Validation of Elections (No. 2) Act 1955 c. 12 * Validation of Elections (No. 3) Act 1955 c. 13 * Wireless Telegraphy (Blind Persons) Act 1955 c. 7


=Private and personal act

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1956


4 & 5 Eliz. 2


=Public General Acts

= * Administration of Justice Act 1956 c. 46 * Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Act 1956 c. 38 * Agricultural Research Act 1956 c. 28 * Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act 1956 c. 49 * Appropriation Act 1956 c. 55 * British Caribbean Federation Act 1956 c. 63 * Charles Beattie#Disqualification, Charles Beattie Indemnity Act 1956 c. 27 * Children and Young Persons Act 1956 c. 24 * Clean Air Act 1956 c. 52 * Coal Industry Act 1956 c. 61 * Consolidated Fund Act 1956 c. 32 * Copyright Act 1956 c. 74 * Criminal Justice Administration Act 1956 c. 34 * Crown Estate Act 1956 c. 73 * Dentists Act 1956 c. 29 * Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Act 1956 c. 58 * Education (Scotland) Act 1956 c. 75 * Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1956 c. 50 * Finance Act 1956 c. 54 * Food and Drugs (Scotland) Act 1956 c. 30 * Governors' Pensions Act 1956 c. 64 * Hill Farming Act 1956 c. 72 * Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 c. 62 * Housing Subsidies Act 1956 c. 33 * Leeward Islands Act 1956 c. 23 * Licensing (Airports) Act 1956 c. 37 * Local Authorities (Expenses) Act 1956 c. 36 * Local Government Elections Act 1956 c. 43 * Local Government (Street Works) (Scotland) Act 1956 c. 40 * Magistrates' Courts (Appeals from Binding Over Orders) Act 1956 c. 44 * Marriage (Scotland) Act 1956 c. 70 * Medical Act 1956 c. 76 * National Insurance Act 1956 c. 47 * Occasional Licences and Young Persons Act 1956 c. 42 * Overseas Resources Development Act 1956 c. 71 * Pakistan (Consequential Provision) Act 1956 c. 31 * Pensions (Increase) Act 1956 c. 39 * Police (Scotland) Act 1956 c. 26 * Public Works Loans Act 1956 c. 65 * Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 c. 68 * Road Traffic Act 1956 c. 67 * Sanitary Inspectors (Change of Designation) Act 1956 c. 66 * Sexual Offences Act 1956 c. 69 * Slum Clearance (Compensation) Act 1956 c. 57 * Small Lotteries and Gaming Act 1956 c. 45 * Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1956 c. 41 * Sugar Act 1956 c. 48 * Teachers (Superannuation) Act 1956 c. 53 * Therapeutic Substances Act 1956 c. 25 * Transport (Disposal of Road Haulage Property) Act 1956 c. 56 * Underground Works (London) Act 1956 c. 59 * Validation of Elections (Northern Ireland) Act 1956 c. 35 * Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956 c. 60 * Workmen's Compensation and Benefit (Supplementation) Act 1956 c. 51


=Private and personal acts

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=Local acts

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1957


5 & 6 Eliz. 2


=Public general acts

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=Local acts

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=Private acts

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6 & 7 Eliz. 2


=Public general acts

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=Local acts

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1958


6 & 7 Eliz. 2


=Public general acts

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=Local acts

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7 & 8 Eliz. 2


=Public general acts

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=Local acts

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1959


7 & 8 Eliz. 2


=Public general acts

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=Local acts

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8 & 9 Eliz. 2


=Public general acts

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=Local acts

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See also

*List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1940-1959 Lists of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1940 1940s in the United Kingdom 1950s in the United Kingdom