In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliament remain in force until expressly repealed.

[1] In 1806, the Commission on Public Records passed a resolution requesting the production of a report on the best mode of reducing the volume of the statute book.

[2] From 1810 to 1825, The Statutes of the Realm was published, providing for the first time the authoritative collection of acts.

[2] In 1816, both Houses of Parliament, passed resolutions that an eminent lawyer with 20 clerks be commissioned to make a digest of the statutes, which was declared "very expedient to be done."

The Coin Laws Consolidation Bill had its first reading in the House of Lords on 30 March 1832, presented by George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland.

4. c. 123) abolished the death penalty for offences of forgery except for forging wills and certain powers of attorney.

[8] Section 1 also provided that for offenses and other matters committed or done before or on the last day of April 1832, that were previously punishable by death, the new punishment would be transportation "beyond the Seas" (likely to colonies) for life or a term not less than 7 years, or Imprisonment with or without hard labor not exceeding 4 years.

An Act passed in the Thirty-seventh Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act to prevent the counterfeiting any Copper Coin in this Realm made or to be made current by Proclamation, or any Foreign Gold or Silver Coin, and to prevent the bringing into this Realm or uttering any counterfeit Foreign Gold or Silver Coin.