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short title In certain jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and other Westminster-influenced jurisdictions (such as Canada or Australia), as well as the United States and the Philippines, primary legislation has both a short title and a long title. T ...

s that are used for

legislation Legislation is the process or result of enrolling, enacting, or promulgating laws by a legislature, parliament, or analogous governing body. Before an item of legislation becomes law it may be known as a bill, and may be broadly referred to ...

in one or more of the countries where short titles are used. It is also a list of articles that list or discuss legislation by short title or subject. * Act of Uniformity * Administration of Justice Act * Agricultural Holdings Act *

Appellate Jurisdiction Act Appellate Jurisdiction Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom which relates to the jurisdiction of appellate courts. List *The Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 59) *The Appellate Jurisdiction Act 18 ...

* Appropriation Act *

Armed Forces Act Armed Forces Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in India, Malaysia and the United Kingdom relating to armed forces. The bill for an act with this short title will usually have been known as an Armed Forces Bill du ...

* Atomic Energy Act * Atomic Energy Authority Act * Bank of England Act * Bank Notes Act * Bankruptcy Act * Beerhouse Act * Births and Deaths Registration Act *

Bridges Act Bridges Act is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to bridges. List Acts of the Parliament of England *The Bridges Act 1530 (22 Hen 8 c 5) *The Bridges Act 1670 (22 Car 2 c 12) *The Bridges Act 1702 (1 Anne ...

* British Museum Act * British Nationality Act *

British North America Act The British North America Acts 1867–1975 are a series of Acts of Parliament that were at the core of the constitution of Canada. Most were enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and some by the Parliament of Canada. In Canada, some ...

* British Subjects Act *

Broadcasting Act Broadcasting Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom that relates to broadcasting. The Bill for an Act with this short title will usually h ...

Building Societies Act Building Societies Act is a stock short title used in both Ireland and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to building societies. List Ireland *The Building Societies (Amendment) Act 2006 *The Building Societies Act 1989 *The Buildi ...

* Burial Act * Children Act * Church Building Act * Coinage Act * Coinage Offences Act * Commons Act * Communications Act * Companies Act * Consolidated Fund Act * Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act * Copyright Act *

Coroners Act Coroners Act is a stock short title used in New Zealand, Ireland and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to coroners. List New Zealand :The Coroners Amendment Act 2003 (No 67) :The Coroners Amendment Act 2004 (No 40) :The Coroners Act ...

* County Courts Act * Court of Session Act *

Crimes Act {{Use dmy dates, date=April 2022 Crimes Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, relating to the criminal law (including both substantive and procedural aspects of th ...

Criminal Justice Act Criminal Justice Act (with its many variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Canada, Malaysia, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom relating to the criminal law (including both substantive and procedural aspects of that ...

Criminal Law Act Criminal Law Act (with its many variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the Kingdom of Great Britain and later in the United Kingdom, as well as in the Republic of Ireland and the Republic of Singapore. The term encompasse ...

Criminal Law Amendment Act Criminal Law Amendment Act (with its many variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Canada, India, Pakistan and South Africa which amends the criminal law (including both substantive a ...

Criminal Procedure Act Criminal Procedure Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation relating to criminal procedure in Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The Bill for an Act with th ...

Crown Lands Act Crown Lands Act is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to crown lands. List United Kingdom *The Crown Lands Act 1623 (21 Jac 1 c 25) *The Crown Lands Act 1702 (1 Ann c 1) *The Crown Land Act 1819 (59 Geo 3 c ...

* Defamation Act *

Defence Act Defence Act is a stock short title used in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to territorial defence. List Australia *The Defence (Citizen Military Forces) Act 1943 New Zealand *The Defence Act 1886 ...

* Diseases of Animals Act * Dogs Act * East India Company Act * Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act * Ecclesiastical Courts Act * Education Act *

Employment Relations Act Employment Relations Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to employment relations. List New Zealand *The Employment Relations Act 2000 (No 24) *The Employment ...

* Entail Act * Evidence Act *

Factory Act The Factory Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate the conditions of industrial employment. The early Acts concentrated on regulating the hours of work and moral welfare of young children employed ...

Fatal Accidents Act Fatal Accidents Act is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to fatal accidents. List Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom :The Fatal Accidents Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict c 93), also known as Lord Campbell's A ...

* Finance Act * Finance Act (India) * Firearms Act * Fisheries Act *

Forcible Entry Act Forcible Entry Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the jurisdictions of both the United Kingdom and Ireland relating to forcible entry. List Acts of the Parliament of England *The Forcible Entry Act 1381 * Statutes concerning forc ...

Forgery Act Forgery Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom which relates to forgery and similar offences. The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known as a Forgery Bill during its passa ...

* Friendly Societies Act * Government Annuities Act * Greenwich Hospital Act * Health and Social Care Act * Highway Act * House of Commons Disqualification Act * Housing Act * Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act * Human Rights Act * Immigration Act * Inclosure Act * Income Tax Act * Indemnity Act * Infanticide Act * International Copyright Act * Interpretation Act * Isle of Man (Customs) Act *

Judicature Act Judicature Act is a term which was used in the United Kingdom for legislation which related to the Supreme Court of Judicature. List United Kingdom :The Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c.66) :The Supreme Court of Judicature ...

Juries Act Juries Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom relating to juries. List * The Juries Act 1871 ( 34 & 35 Vict. c. 2) * The Juries Act 1974 The Juries Acts 1825 to 1870 was the collective title ...

Justices of the Peace Act Justices of the Peace Act is a stock short title used in New Zealand and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to justices of the peace. List New Zealand *The Justices of the Peace Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict No 27) * The Justices of the Peace ...

Land Act 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 bodies of water. It makes up 29% of Earth's surface and includes the continents and various is ...

* Land Drainage Act * Land Purchase Act * Land Registration Act *

Landlord and Tenant Act Landlord and Tenant Act (with variations) is a stock short title used for legislation about rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants of leasehold estate in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States. List Hong Kong *The Land ...

Larceny Act Larceny Act (with its variations) is a stock short title which was formerly used for legislation in the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland relating to larceny and other offences against property. The Bill for an Act with this short titl ...

Law of Property Act Law of Property Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the British Virgin Islands relating to property law. The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known as a Law of Propert ...

* Law Reform Act *

Libel Act Libel Act (with its variations) is a stock short title which was formerly used for legislation in the United Kingdom relating to libel (including criminal libel). The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Libel Bill dur ...

Licensing Act Licensing Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to licensing. List * Licensing Order of 1643, an Act imposing pre-publication censorship and prompting Milton to write ''Areopagitica' ...

* Limitation Act *

Local Government Act Local Government Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Ireland and the United Kingdom, relating to local government. The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known ...

* Lunacy Act * Magistrates' Courts Act *

Marriage Act Marriage Act may refer to a number of pieces of legislation: Australia * Marriage Act 1961, Australia's law that governs legal marriage. * Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017 Canada * ''Civil Marriage Act'' passed in ...

Matrimonial Causes Act "Matrimonial Causes Act" is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom relating to marriage law. List * The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 * The Matrimonial Causes Act 1858 * The Matrimonial Causes Act 1859 * The Matrimonial C ...

* Medical Act *

Mental Health Act Mental Health Act is a stock short title used for legislation relating to mental health law. List Canada * Mental Health Act (Ontario) (Ontario) India *The Mental Health Care Act, 2017 Ireland *The Mental Health Act 2001 New Zealand *The Mental ...

Merchant Shipping Act Merchant Shipping Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in Malaysia and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to merchant shipping. Merchant shipping acts and regulations also exist as well in other countries, and they ar ...

* Metropolitan Police Act * Militia Act * Misuse of Drugs Act *

Municipal Corporations Act Municipal Corporations Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to municipal corporations. List *The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will 4 c 76) *The Municipal Corporation (Boun ...

* National Debt Act * National Heritage Act * National Security Act *

Northern Ireland Act Northern Ireland Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to Northern Ireland. List *The Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973 *The Northern Ireland Act 1974 *The Northern Ir ...

Oaths Act Oaths Act is a stock short title used in Canada, Malaysia and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to oaths and affirmation. Oaths Acts is a term of art. List Canada * The '' Oaths Act, 1873'' - disallowed by the government of the ...

* Obscene Publications Act *

Offences Against the Person Act Offences Against the Person Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom, in the Republic of Ireland, in Hong Kong, in New Zealand, in Tasmania, in Jamaica, and in Antigua and Barbuda, relating to off ...

* Offences at Sea Act * Official Information Act *

Official Secrets Act An Official Secrets Act (OSA) is legislation that provides for the protection of state secrets and official information, mainly related to national security but in unrevised form (based on the UK Official Secrets Act 1911) can include all infor ...

* Parliament Act * Parliamentary Costs Act * Patent Act *

Penal Servitude Act Penal Servitude Act is a stock short title which was used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to penal servitude. The abolition of penal servitude has rendered this short title obsolete in that country. List :The Penal Servitude Act ...

* Petroleum Act *

Piracy Act Piracy Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom relating to piracy. The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known as a Piracy Bill during its passage through Parliament. List * The Piracy Act 16 ...

Police Act Police Act is a stock short title used for legislation in India, Malaysia and the United Kingdom relating to police forces and officers. List India * Indian Police Act 1861 Malaysia *The Police Act 1967 United Kingdom *The Police (Property) ...

* Poor Relief Act * Post Office Act * Postal Services Act *

Prevention of Corruption Act Prevention of Corruption Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in India, Malaysia and the United Kingdom relating to corruption and bribery. The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Prevent ...

* Prison Act * Protection of Children Act *

Public Health Act Public Health Act is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to public health. List *The Public Health Act 1848 (11 & 12 Vict c 63) *The Sanitary Act 1866 (29 & 30 Vict c 90) is sometimes called the Public Health A ...

Public Libraries Act Public Libraries Act is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation ("Acts of Parliament") relating to public libraries. List * The Public Libraries Act 1850 (13 & 14 Vict c 65) * The Public Libraries (Ireland) Act 1855 (18 & ...

* Public Order Act * Public Schools Act * Public Works Act * Queen Anne's Bounty Act *

Railways Act Railways Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in India, Malaysia and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to railways. List India * The Indian Railways Act, 1890 * The Railways Act, 1989 Malaysia *The Railways Act 1991 *T ...

* Regency Act *

Representation of the People Act Representation of the People Act is a stock short title used in Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Mauritius, Pakistan, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and To ...

* Revenue Act *

Riot Act The Riot Act (1 Geo.1 St.2 c.5), sometimes called the Riot Act 1714 or the Riot Act 1715, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which authorised local authorities to declare any group of 12 or more people to be unlawfully assembled and o ...

* Sale of Goods Act * Sedition Act * Settled Land Act * Sexual Offences Act *

Short Titles Act Short Titles Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Ireland and the United Kingdom which retroactively confers short titles on a large number of earlier pieces of legislation. The Bill for an Act with this short ti ...

Slave Trade Act Slave Trade Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States that relates to the slave trade. The "See also" section lists other Slave Acts, laws, and international conventions which developed the c ...

Solicitors Act Solicitors Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to solicitors. List *The Revenue Solicitors Act 1828 ( 9 Geo. 4. c. 25) *The Treasury Solicitor Act 1876 ( 39 & 40 Vict. c. 18) *T ...

* Stamp Act *

Statute Law (Repeals) Act Statute Law (Repeals) Act is a stock short title which is used for Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom whose purpose is to repeal enactments which are no longer of practical utility. These Acts are drafted by the Law Commission and the Sco ...

* Statute Law Revision Act * Statute Revision Act * Superannuation Act *

Supreme Court of Judicature Act Supreme Court of Judicature Act (with its variations) is a stock short title which was formerly used for legislation in the United Kingdom relating to the Supreme Court of Judicature for England and Wales and the court of the same name for Ireland ...

* Telecommunications Act *

Telegraph Act Telegraph Act is a stock short title which used to be used for legislation in the United Kingdom, relating to telegraphy. The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known as a Telegraph Bill during its passage through Parliament. ...

Theft Act Theft Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom which relates to theft and other offences against property. The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Theft Bill during it ...

* Tithe Act * Town and Country Planning Act *

Trade Union Act Trade Union Act (with its many variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in various countries which relates to trade unions. The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Trade Union Bill during its passage throu ...

Trading with the Enemy Act Trading with the Enemy Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States relating to trading with the enemy. ''Trading with the Enemy Acts'' is also a generic name for a class of legislation generally ...

Tramways Act Tramways Act is a stock short titles used in India, New Zealand and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to tramways. List India *The Indian Tramways Act, 1886 *The Indian Tramways Act, 1902 ;Bengal *The Bengal Tramways Act, 1883 * ...

Treason Act Treason Act or Treasons Act (and variations thereon) or Statute of Treasons is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland on the subject of treason and related offences. Several Acts on the ...

Truck Act Truck Acts is the name given to legislation that outlaws truck systems, which are also known as "company store" systems, commonly leading to debt bondage. In England and Wales such laws date back to the 15th century. History The modern success ...

* Trusts Act *

Weights and Measures Act A weights and measures act is a kind of legislative act found in many jurisdictions establishing technical standards for weights and measures. Notable acts of this type include: * Various Weights and Measures Acts (UK) or the various legislative ...

Welfare Reform Act Welfare Reform Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom relating to social security benefits. The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known as a Welfare Reform Bill during its passage through Parliame ...

Wills Act Wills Act is a stock short title used in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to will (law), wills. List Australia * Wills, Probate and Administration Act 1898 Wills Act 1997(Vic) Wills A ...

Wireless Telegraphy Act Wireless Telegraphy Act is (with its variations) a stock short title used for legislation in the Republic of Ireland, South Africa and the United Kingdom relating to wireless telegraphy. The Wireless Telegraphy Acts are laws regulating radio commu ...

Witchcraft Act In England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and the British colonies, there has historically been a succession of Witchcraft Acts governing witchcraft and providing penalties for its practice, or—in later years—rather for pretending to practise ...

Universities Act Universities Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to universities. List Canada British Columbia * University Act Malaysia *The Universities and U ...

* Unlawful Oaths Act * Vaccination Act * Visiting Forces Act

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*"Alphabetical Table of Statutes and Rules Selected". Chitty's Statutes of Practical Utility

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