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The first phase of the Statute Law Revision Project involved a review of Public General Acts enacted prior to Irish independence on 6th December 1922. This process led to the publication and enactment of the Statute Law Revision Act 2007. The Act provides a list of 1,364 statutes which were to remain in force after the enactment of the Bill. Apart from these 1,364 statutes, all other pre-independence Public General Acts are now repealed. The effect of this was that more than 3,200 statutes were repealed by the Act, making it the largest statute law revision measure ever to apply to Ireland.
The statutes in the following lists were the statutes which were saved by the 2007 Act and which therefore would continue to be in force unless or until repealed by some other Act.
MS Word format (211kb). MS Word format (44kb). MS Word format (34kb). MS Word format (990kb).A significant number of the statutes which were preserved by the 2007 Act are scheduled to be repealed in new legislation in the near future. The most important such new proposed law is the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006. This would, when enacted, repeal more than 130 Acts which pre-date Irish independence.
The 2007 Act specifically preserved the position of all Local and Personal Acts and Private Acts, as well as Charters of a local, personal or private nature. A number of institutions - including charities and schools - were founded by way of such statutes. These were not affected by the 2007 Act in any way. The Local and Personal Acts and Private Acts are being considered as part of the current phase of the Statute Law Revision Project with the intention of bringing forward another Statute Law Revision Bill dealing with them. Public submissions are being sought on those Acts, as well as on pre-1922 Charters, Letters Patent and Statutory Rules and Orders, which may be of continuing relevance.