[1] The act was the first to be referred to the Joint Committee for consideration of Statute Law Revision Bills.

In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliament remain in force until expressly repealed.

Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the late 18th-century, raised questions about the system and structure of the common law and the poor drafting and disorder of the existing statute book.

[3] 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."

[2] The Board issued three reports, recommending the creation of a permanent body for statute law reform.

An alternative approach, focusing on expunging obsolete laws from the statute book, followed by consolidation, was proposed by Peter Locke King MP, who was heavily critical of the expenditure of the Commission and the lack of results.

Wood to expurgate the statute book of all acts which, though not expressly repealed, were not in force, working backwards from the present time.

[10] The bill had its third reading in the House of Commons on 2 June 1893 and passed, without amendments.

Accordingly, it did not repeal, as to His Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom, much of this schedule as related to the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 (15 & 16 Vict.

5. c. 30) provided that so much of the schedule as related to the preamble to, and part of section 86 of, the Naval Discipline Act (29 & 30 Vict.

The schedule repealed, as to all Her Majesty's Dominions, the following enactments of the British North America Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict.

[16] The provisions of the schedule which relate to Canada consist of those which repeal parts of the British North America Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict.

[17] The provisions of the schedule which repeal parts of the British North America Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict.

c. 3) were not repealed, as to His Majesty's dominions out of the United Kingdom, by the Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (8 Edw.

[22] As to the repeal of section 60 of the Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment (Ireland) Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict.

[24] According to Edwin Adam, in Stirling v Dickson (1900), the Lord Justice General, and Lords Adam and M'Laren, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary, in a suspension, held that in view of the provisions of sections 3(2) and 6 of the Summary Procedure (Scotland) Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict.

[30] Section 1 of the act provided that repeals were subject to the standard Westbury Saving.