Continuance of Laws Act 1746

Continuance of Laws Act 1746
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to continue several Laws, for prohibiting the Importation of Books re-printed Abroad, and first composed or written and printed in Great Britain, for preventing Exactions of the Occupiers of Locks and Wears upon the River of Thames Westward, and for ascertaining the Rates of Water-carriage upon the said River, and for better securing the lawful Trade of His Majesty's Subjects to and from The East Indies, and for the more effectual preventing all His Majesty's Subjects trading thither under Foreign Commissions, and relating to Rice, to Frauds in the Customs, to the clandestine Running of Goods, and to Copper One of the British Plantations, and for the free Importation of Cochineal and Indico, and for Punishment of Persons destroying Turnpikes or Locks, or other Works erected by Authority of Parliament.
Citation20 Geo. 2. c. 47
Territorial extent Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent17 June 1747
Commencement18 November 1746
Repealed15 July 1867
Other legislation
AmendsSee § Continued enactments
Amended byInsolvent Debtors Relief, etc. Act 1747
Repealed byStatute Law Revision Act 1867
Relates to
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Continuance of Laws Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 47) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that continued various older acts.