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47-595: The Public Schools Act 1868 ( 31 & 32 Vict. c. 118) was enacted by the British Parliament to reform and regulate seven leading English boys' boarding schools, most of which had grown out of ancient charity schools for the education of a certain number of poor scholars, but were by then, as they are today, also educating many sons of the English upper and upper-middle classes on a fee-paying basis. The preamble describes "An Act to make further Provision for

94-436: A bill cannot be amended to go outside the scope of its long title. For that reason, modern long titles tend to be rather vague, ending with the formulation "and for connected purposes". The long title of an older act is sometimes termed its rubric , because it was sometimes printed in red. Short titles for acts of Parliament were not introduced until the mid-19th century, and were not provided for every act passed until late in

141-485: A comma immediately before a reference to a year and a comma immediately after such a reference that is not required for the purpose of punctuation may be omitted. It is not necessary to use the comma as it is not part of an act of Parliament; although normal punctuation is now used by draftsmen, and is included in King's Printer's copies of acts of Parliament. The comma preceding the calendar year in printed copies of acts

188-481: A comma rather than of between "Appropriations Act" and the year of passage, beginning in the 2000s. However, a 1990s example of this titling pattern is the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Appropriations Act, 1999 . In Re Boaler , Buckley LJ said: The fact that for the purpose of identification only and not of enactment also authority is given to identify the statute by a particular name in which

235-428: A short title to an act, the act may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, continue to be cited by that short title. An act may continue to be cited by the short title authorised by any enactment notwithstanding the repeal of that enactment. [...] Since the second half of the nineteenth century, short titles have become the usual method of referencing earlier statute law within legislation itself. In

282-770: Is an act of Parliament relating to human rights that received Royal Assent in 1998. Some exceptions exist, such as the Bill of Rights 1689 , whose formal short title in the UK (as given by the Short Titles Act 1896 ) is simply "Bill of Rights", without a year, although it is not a bill but an act. More narrowly focused legislation may have a secondary phrase in parentheses, such as the Road Traffic (Vehicle Emissions) Regulations 2002 (a statutory instrument ). Laws that relate primarily to other laws, such as amendments, contain

329-458: Is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of

376-531: Is made optional, is defined by a specific section if existing. For example, the Combating Iran's Nuclear Program Act, which under the usual convention would have begun with the long title An Act to sanction entities assisting Iran in promoting its nuclear program or obtaining weapons of mass destruction or means of carrying weapons of mass destruction and to limit corporations who have business relations with Iran, for its favor or in its territory, as part of

423-564: Is omitted on the authority of a note by Sir Noel Hutton QC, First Parliamentary Counsel , as to which see "The Citation of Statutes" 82 LQR 24-24. The validity of this note is questioned by Halsbury's Laws of England , Fourth Edition, Reissue, Volume 44(1), footnote 10 to paragraph 1268. Glanville Williams said that it "seems sensible" to omit the comma preceding the calendar year in references to acts passed before 1963. An act of Congress that appropriates federal funds to specific federal government departments, agencies and programs has

470-588: Is that an act amending "Foo Act yyy1" will have short title "Foo (Amendment) Act yyy2". If a law is passed with the same title as another law passed in the same year, an ordinal number will be added to distinguish it from the others; this is particularly common for Finance Acts (Finance (No. 3) Act 2010) and commencement orders that bring parts of an Act into force (Environment Act 1995 (Commencement No.13) (Scotland) Order 1998). However, for laws that amend other laws, this ordinal numbering does not reset every year (For example, even though only two amendments were made to

517-590: The 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom , which met from 19 November 1867 until 31 July 1868. Short title In certain jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and other Westminster -influenced jurisdictions (such as Canada or Australia), as well as the United States and the Philippines, primary legislation has both a short title and a long title . The long title (properly,

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564-606: The Act of Consolidation, 1854 . The vast majority of acts passed by the Parliament of Canada do not include the year of enactment as part of the short title. In acts passed by the Congress of the Philippines , titling of legislation primarily follows the U.S. convention, although many acts contain the word "Law" instead of the more conventional "Act" either at the end of the title or before "of [year]" if they are comprehensive. Since

611-673: The Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act . In some states, like California, some short titles consist only of the names of the key legislators, as in the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act , the statutory basis of the "5150" involuntary psychiatric hold used for temporarily detaining psychiatric patients. Draft legislation ( bills ) also uses short titles, but substitutes

658-657: The Parliament of Ireland is "Yelverton's Act (Ireland) 1781 [I]" in Northern Ireland and "Calendar Act, 1781" in the Republic of Ireland ; the short titles were assigned respectively by Acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the Oireachtas . Most short titles include a descriptive phrase followed by the type of legislation and the year of enactment; for example, the Human Rights Act 1998

705-682: The Parliament of Scotland . Further short titles were given by the Statute Law Revision Act 1948 , the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 and the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 . In Ireland, ex post facto short titles have been conferred by the Short Titles Act 1962 , the Statute Law Revision Act 2007 , the Statute Law Revision Act 2009 and the Statute Law Revision Act 2012 . In a few cases, particular acts have had more than one short title given to them, for example because subsequent amendments to their contents have rendered

752-475: The list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland . For acts passed from 1707 to 1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain . See also the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland . For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the list of acts of the Scottish Parliament , the list of acts of

799-616: The previous section continue to apply, but are removed and noted in the endnotes upon enactment. The titles of legislation enacted by the United States Congress, if they include a year, invariably add the preposition "of" between the word "Act" and the year. Compare the Australian Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth), Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (UK), and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (US). Even if no year

846-427: The title in some jurisdictions) is the formal title appearing at the head of a statute (such as an act of Parliament or of Congress ) or other legislative instrument. The long title is intended to provide a summarised description of the purpose or scope of the instrument. Like other descriptive components of an act (such as the preamble , section headings, side notes, and short title), the long title seldom affects

893-599: The 1840s. Amending acts also began to take the opportunity to create short titles for earlier acts as well as for themselves. Eventually the Short Titles Act 1892 ( 55 & 56 Vict. c. 10) was passed to create short titles for almost all remaining legislation. This statute was repealed and replaced by the Short Titles Act 1896 , which conferred short titles on about 2,000 acts. The Short Titles Act (Northern Ireland) 1951 conferred short titles on 179 acts applying to Northern Ireland . The Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1964 conferred short titles on 164 pre-union acts of

940-580: The Admission in Evidence of certain official and other Documents ' ". Short titles were introduced because the titles of statutes (now commonly known as long titles ) had become so long that they were no longer a useful means of citation. For example, the title of 19 Geo. 2 . c. 26 (1745) ( Attainder of Earl of Kellie and others Act 1746 ) ran to 65 lines of King's Printer and to over 400 words. Short titles were first introduced for acts of Parliament in

987-644: The Crown . Similarly, in the US, the Judiciary Act of 1789 , which was ruled unconstitutional in part by Marbury v. Madison (1803), was called "An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States". The long title was traditionally followed by the preamble , an optional part of an act setting out a number of preliminary statements of facts similar to recitals , each starting Whereas... Unlike

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1034-691: The Israeli Criminal Procedure Law in 2018, these amendments are numbered No.81 and No.82 in their titles.) In Ireland, the Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Act 2012 was enacted in 2015 rather than 2012. It was passed by both houses of the Oireachtas in 2012 but not signed into law by the President until 2015, after an intervening referendum and court challenge. Section 2(2) of

1081-534: The Northern Ireland Assembly , and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru ; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland . The number shown after each act's title is its chapter number. Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800

1128-412: The Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3". Some of these acts have a short title . Some of these acts have never had a short title. Some of these acts have a short title given to them by later acts, such as by the Short Titles Act 1896 . The second session of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom , which met from 5 February 1867 until 21 August 1867. The third session of

1175-584: The UK this replaced the earlier method of citing the long title together with the chapter number and the regnal year (s) of the parliamentary session in which it received royal assent . For example, modern legislation would simply refer to "the Evidence Act 1845", whereas in the past it would have been necessary to use wording such as "the Act passed in the eighth and ninth year of Her Majesty's reign chapter one hundred and thirteen intitled 'An Act to facilitate

1222-756: The act concerned itself with the other seven schools investigated by the Clarendon Commission: The act regulated these seven schools in a number of ways, as recommended by the Clarendon Commission, with the aim of creating better conditions in them and preventing abuses, and authorized the establishment of a board of governors for each school, to supervise their administration. It also freed them of their obligations under their founding charters to educate "Foundation Scholars", i.e. scholarship boys paying nominal or no fees. The Act made it clear that Parliament had authority to legislate for

1269-533: The act, which assigns the short title, could not be amended between the houses' passing the bill and its being enacted (though it could still be amended by a subsequent act of the Oireachtas). This act's short title is longer than its long title, which is "An Act to Amend the Constitution", as required by the constitution. Australian long titles are more like American than British ones in that they are short and broad: for example, "A Bill for an Act to provide for

1316-577: The century; as such, the long title was used to identify the act. Short titles were subsequently given to many unrepealed acts at later dates; for example, the Bill of Rights , an act of 1689, was given that short title by the Short Titles Act 1896 , having until then been formally referred to only by its long title, An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of

1363-714: The earlier name inaccurate. For example, when the 1992 version of Basic Law: the Government – the so-called "Direct Election law" – made the post of Prime Minister of Israel elected, it added provisions regarding the Prime Ministerial election to the Knesset Election Law, 1969 , and renamed it as "Knesset and Prime Minister Elections Law, 1969". This change was reverted following the abolition of direct Prime Ministerial elections in 2001. British (and English ) legislation that has been "inherited" by

1410-445: The early 20th century, it has become popular in the United States to include the names of key legislators in the short titles of the most important acts. This was at first done informally; that is, the names appeared in legal treatises and court opinions but were not part of the statute as enacted. Eventually members of Congress began to formally write their own names into short titles (thereby immortalizing themselves for posterity), as in

1457-561: The establishment of the Automotive Transformation Scheme, and for related purposes". However, not all states use long titles and an Act may instead have an explicit "Purpose" section. Acts in EU law  are cited by a combination of letters and numbers, e.g. '(EU) 2015/35' as short titles; but occasionally there are descriptive short titles, e.g. Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 = 'Single CMO Regulation',

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1504-604: The good Government and Extension of certain Public Schools in England." The concept of a public school therefore predates this Act. The Act followed the report of the Clarendon Commission , a Royal Commission set up to inquire into nine leading schools, which sat from 1861 to 1864 and investigated conditions and abuses which had grown up over the centuries at these originally charity schools. The bill

1551-402: The international struggle against Iran's nuclear program. The Australian state of Victoria , since 1986, follows a similar practice, having a title comparable to a short title outside the main body of the legislation and a purpose section establishing the purpose of the legislation. Bills continue to have long titles (in similar terms to the purpose section) so that the scoping rules described in

1598-597: The international struggle against Iran's nuclear program. and whose first section might have read This Act may be cited as the 'Combating Iran's Nuclear Program Act, 5772-2012'. actually begins with the short title Combating Iran's Nuclear Program Act, 5772-2012 and its first section reads The purpose of this Act is to sanction entities assisting Iran in promoting its nuclear program or obtaining weapons of mass destruction or means of carrying weapons of mass destruction and to limit corporations who have business relations with Iran, for its favor or in its territory, as part of

1645-690: The legal systems of other countries has also sometimes ended up with a short title in one jurisdiction that differs from that used in another: for example, the act of Parliament that created Canada in 1867 is formally known in Canada as the Constitution Act, 1867 , but is still known as the British North America Act 1867 in British law; note also the differing comma convention. Similarly, the Act "21 & 22 George III c.48" of

1692-405: The long title, which precedes the preamble and enacting formula , and thus sits outside the main body of text, the short title for modern legislation is explicitly defined by a specific section, typically at the very end or very beginning of the main text. As with the above example, short titles are generally made up of just a few words that describe in broad terms the area of law being changed or

1739-440: The operative provisions of an act, except where the operative provisions are unclear or ambiguous and the long title provides a clear statement of the legislature's intention. The short title is the formal name by which legislation may by law be cited . It contrasts with the long title which, while usually being more fully descriptive of the legislation's purpose and effects, is generally too unwieldy for most uses. For example,

1786-679: The same case(3), and to that which the latter said further in National Telephone Co. v. Postmaster-General .(4) In R v Wheatley , Bridge LJ said of the Explosives Act 1875 and the Explosive Substances Act 1883 : Looking at the two statutes, at the nature of the provisions which they both contain, and in particular at the short and long titles of both statutes, it appears to this court that they are clearly in pari materia , ... If much of an older act

1833-700: The schools. The act led to development of the schools away from the traditional exclusively classics -based curriculum taught by clergymen, to a somewhat broader scope of studies. In 1887 the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal determined that the City of London School was a public school. 31 %26 32 Vict. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland ). For acts passed up until 1707, see

1880-461: The short title House of Lords Act 1999 contrasts with the long title An Act to restrict membership of the House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage; to make related provision about disqualifications for voting at elections to, and for membership of, the House of Commons; and for connected purposes . In the United Kingdom, the long title is important since, under the procedures of Parliament,

1927-626: The short titles of those laws in their own short titles, for example the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (Amendment) Act 2010. Subsequent enactments can lead to particularly lengthy short titles; for example, the Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act 1868, amended by the Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act 1868 (Amendment) Act 1869, and itself amended by the Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act 1868 (Amendment) Act 1879 (Amendment) Act 1880. The more recent shorter convention

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1974-402: The thing affected, followed by the word "Act" and then the year in which the legislation is formally enacted. Occasionally, the word "Act" may be replaced with another descriptor. Common examples are "Code" and "Charter". A notable exception is Israel , in which this convention is reversed. The short title sits outside the main body of legislation, and the summary description of the law, which

2021-508: The word "Bill" for "Act". The Australian Guide to Legal Citation recommends that the definite article at the beginning of the "statute title" should be omitted when citing a statute of the United Kingdom. Originally short titles had a comma preceding the year. Whether this is retained or not depends on the country involved: it has been dropped in Ireland and the United Kingdom, but retained in Canada. In citing an act by its short title,

2068-597: The word "action" occurs is, I think, immaterial. The words "This Act may be cited as the Vexatious Actions Act 1896," effect nothing by way of enactment. They do no more than create a name, and whether it is as matter of description accurate or not is immaterial. In support of this view I refer to that which Lord Haldane said in Vacher & Sons v. London Society of Compositors (2) as regards the title "Trade Disputes Act, 1906," and that which Lord Moulton said in

2115-488: Was included in the official short title enacted by Congress, it is traditional always to precede the year with an "of" if it needs to be appended in prose after the short title. This convention is followed by most but not all U.S. states ; for example, the Act of the Pennsylvania legislature that consolidated the governments of the city of Philadelphia and Philadelphia County is generally (though not formally) called

2162-559: Was presented for its first reading in the Lords by Lord Clarendon on 13 March 1865 and for its second reading on 3 April 1865. The bill was in two parts, the first containing the general provisions of the bill and the second containing specific proposals for each school. St Paul's School and Merchant Taylors' School were omitted, as they argued successfully that their constitutions made them legally "private" schools and that their constitutions could not be altered by public legislation; thus

2209-426: Was repealed by the time a short title was assigned to it, the short title may describe only the parts in force at the time of assignment. For example, the act 59 George III c.84 as enacted regulated publicly funded roadbuilding throughout Ireland, but by 1873 the only unrepealed section was one making Kinsale a barony , so the 1896 short title is "Kinsale Act 1819". Notwithstanding the repeal of an enactment giving

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