[5] Section 1 and schedule 1 authorised the citation of 2,095 earlier acts by short titles.

[7] This act gave short titles to all public general acts passed since the Union of England and Scotland and then in force, which had not already been given short titles, except for those omitted from the Revised Edition of the Statutes by reason of their local or personal character.

It was in turn repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1908.

This schedule was amended for the Republic of Ireland by section 5 of the Statute Law Revision Act 2007.

Section 2(1) and schedule 2 originally authorised the citation of 132 groups of acts by collective titles.