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by Acts other than the Statute Law Revision Act, 1863, which repeals are in terms limited territorially, have been dealt with thus:—
(a) The territorial limitation of the repeal is noticed, in case the Act repealed had a more extensive operation territorially than the repeal.
(b) In other cases the repeal is entered as unrestricted.
Amendments.
7. As regards amendments it sometimes happens that when an Act is amended by more than one Act, second or subsequent amendments are not, in the amending Acts, made by reference to the original Act. In such cases, the Table does not always show such amendments against the original Act: it follows, therefore, that an entry indicating an amendment should be checked to see whether the amending Act has been further amended.
Irish Enactments.
8. When new legislatures were set up in Ireland in 1923 it was recognised, as regards the Index to the Statutes in Force, that it was no more concerned with matters delegated to the legislatures of the two countries into which Ireland was divided than with matters within the legislative competence of any of the overseas Dominions. At the same time it was also decided that the Table should not attempt to show the effect of Acts of the two Irish legislatures on the Acts contained in the Table. As a consequence certain Acts of Irish application are distinguished in the Table by an asterisk which indicates that entries relating to amendments by either of the Irish legislatures have not been made in the Table and that, if the Act is applicable to Northern Ireland, the Parliament of Northern Ireland may have legislated, or has apparently power to legislate, upon the subject of the Act or upon some aspect of it.
Furthermore, as appears from the heading of each page of the Table, certain Acts are shown in the Table in italics when they are marked as “Irish.” The enactments referred to are enactments which are applicable to the Republic of Ireland only or are applicable to the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland or Northern Ireland only and, if applicable to Northern Ireland, are within the competence of the Northern Ireland legislature.
The reason for this course being taken in the Table is that the Table is intended to be a companion volume to the Third and subsequent Editions of the Statutes Revised and Section 3 of the Statute Law Revision Act, 1950, authorises (among other things) the omission from any revised edition of the Statutes of enactments relating to the Republic of Ireland and, so far as relates to matters within the powers of the Parliament thereof, Northern Ireland: such enactments have been omitted from the Third Edition of the
