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c. 12), commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the amendment of the Sugar Act. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and avoid humiliation.
An Act to empower the British Transport Commission to construct works and to acquire lands, to authorise the closing to navigation of portions of certain waterways, to extend the time for the compulsory purchase of certain lands and the completion of certain works, to confer further powers on the Commission; and for other purposes.
An Act to make provision with regard to the powers of the Secretary of State under sections 1(2) and 76(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1962, [am] and under the said section 1(2), as re-enacted as section 2 of the said Act of 1962 by the Education (Scotland) Act 1969, [an] in relation to the employment of teachers, and for purposes connected ...
Each act passed in a respective session is given a chapter number (abbreviated "c."), denoted by Arabic numerals in the case of public general acts, lowercase Roman numerals in the case of local acts, or italicised Arabic numerals in the case of personal acts. These run as separate series. [3]
An Act to alter the composition of the Trustees of the British Museum, to provide for the separation from the British Museum of the British Museum (Natural History), to make new provision with respect to the regulation of the two Museums and their collections in place of that made by the British Museum Act 1753 [r] and enactments amending or ...
An Act to confer rights of appeal against the exercise by the Secretary of State and officers acting under his instructions of their powers in respect of the admission into and removal from the United Kingdom of persons to whom section 1 or 6 of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 [m] applies, and to enable provision to be made by Order in ...
An Act to establish a fund from which payments may be made in respect of expenses incurred for the purpose of protecting aircraft, aerodromes or air navigation installations against acts of violence or in connection with the policing of airports; to amend the law relating to the Civil Aviation Authority and the British Airways Board; to amend ...
An Act to amend the provisions of the National Insurance Act 1965, [t] the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965 [u] and the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1967 [v] as to the rate or amount of benefit and contributions; to alter the conditions for payment of attendance allowance and unemployability supplement; to ...