The Statute Law Revision Act 2007 is an Act of the Oireachtas of the Republic of Ireland which repealed a large amount of pre-1922 legislation of Ireland, England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom while preserving a shorter list of statutes.
[1] Prior to the 2007 Act, statute law revision had been sporadic since Irish independence in 1922.
This left 4,589 statutes still in force, of which 3,225 were to be repealed by the Act and were listed in Schedule 2, some of which were in any case by then unconstitutional.
The Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act 1543, which partitioned Meath in two, was also retained; as was the English Bill of Rights 1688,[4] however it was partly repealed, including the provision that guaranteed Protestants the right to bear arms.
8. c. 17 (I)) was also retained and this retention has been the subject of academic criticism from Dr Maebh Harding.