Revised edition of the statutes

In 1861 the British Parliament passed the first of a long series of Statute Law Revision Acts. The most important action, was the nomination of Statute Law Committee by Lord Chancellor Cairns in 1868, the practical result of which was the issuing of an edition of the Revised Statutes in eighteen volumes, bringing the revision of statute law down to 1886.

For the purpose of citation "Statutes Revised" may be abbreviated to "Rev Stat".

Section 3 of the Statute Law Revision Act 1948 now provides:

(1) From any revised edition of the statutes published by authority there may be omitted-

(2) An omission made under the authority of this Act shall not affect the construction or interpretation of any statute.

Section 3(1) of the Statute Law Revision Act 1950 now provides:

From any revised edition of the statutes published by authority there may be omitted enactments or words in respect of matters exclusively relating to territory within the jurisdiction of any one or more of the following, that is to say, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, . . . the Republic of Ireland, . . . and, so far as relates to matters within the powers of the Parliament thereof, Northern Ireland.

Without prejudice to any other saving contained in the Statute Law Revision Act 1950, an omission made under the authority of section 3 of that Act does not affect the construction or interpretation of any statute.

Where any Act cites or refers to another Act otherwise than by its short title, the short title may, in any revised edition of the statutes printed by authority, be printed in substitution for such citation or reference.

Where an Act cites another Act by year, statute, session or chapter, or a section or other portion of another Act by number or letter, the reference must, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as referring, in the case of Acts included in any revised edition of the statutes printed by authority, to that edition.

Section 1 of the Statute Law Revision Act 1948 formerly provided that every part of a title, preamble, or recital specified after the words "in part, namely," in connection with an Act mentioned in the First Schedule to that Act might be omitted from any revised edition of the statutes published by authority after the passing of that Act, and there might be added in the said edition such brief statement of the Acts, officers, persons, and things mentioned in the title, preamble, or recital, as might in consequence of such omission appear necessary.

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