Dean Forest Act 1861

The Dean Forest Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 40) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a public general Act.[2] It was omitted from the third revised edition of the statutes because of its local and personal nature.[3]

Dean Forest Act 1861[1]
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to make further Provision for the Management of Her Majesty’s Forest of Dean, and of the Mines and Quarries therein and in the Hundred of Saint Briavels in the County of Gloucester.
Citation24 & 25 Vict. c. 40
Dates
Royal assent22 July 1861
Status: Amended
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

This Act was partly in force in Great Britain at the end of 2010.[4]

The preamble and sections 2 and 5 and 6 and 17 and 22 and 27 were repealed by section 1 of, and Part VII of the Schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969. These provisions had been agreed by the Forestry Commission to be obsolete, spent, unnecessary or superseded.[5]

Section 7

In the case of any grant after the passing of the Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1904 of any gale to which that Act applies section 7 of the Dean Forest Act 1861 (which relates to the cesser and refixing of rents and royalties) has effect as though such number of years not exceeding sixty-three as may be specified in the grant were substituted for twenty-one years in that section.[6]

Section 25

This section was repealed by section 1(4) of, and the Schedule to, the Wild Creatures and Forest Laws Act 1971.

Section 26

This section is amended by paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Dean Forest and New Forest Acts (Amendment) Regulations 1979 (SI 1979/836).[7]

See also

References
  1. The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 3 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. The Chronological Table of the Statutes, 1235 - 2010. The Stationery Office. 2011. ISBN 978-0-11-840509-6. Part I. Page vii. Paragraph 1(c) and note 1.
  3. The Statutes Revised. Third Edition. HMSO. 1950. Volume VII. Page xi, read with page xi of volume I.
  4. The Chronological Table of the Statutes, 1235 - 2010. The Stationery Office. 2011. ISBN 978-0-11-840509-6. Part I. Page 417, read with pages ix and x.
  5. The Law Commission. Statute Law Revision: First Report. Law Com 22. Cmnd 4052. HMSO. London. May 1969.
  6. The Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1904, section 4 (as read with s 9)
  7. These regulations were made under the Forestry Act 1979. They took effect from 16 August 1979.


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