Continuance of Laws Act 1798

Continuance of Laws Act 1798
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn act to continue several laws relating to the granting a bounty on certain species of British and Irish linens exported, and taking off the duties on the importation of foreign raw linen yarns made of flax, until June 24, 1799; to the permitting the exportation of tobacco pipe clay from this kingdom to the British sugar colonies or plantations in the West Indies, until June 24, 1802; to the allowing the importation of rape seed, and other seeds used for extracting oil, whenever the prices of middling British rape seed shall be above a certain limit, until June 24, 1799; to the further support and encouragement of the fisheries carried on in the Greenland seas and Davis's streights, until Dec. 25, 1799; to the more effectual encouragement of the manufactures of flax and cotton in Great Britain, until June 24, 1799; to the ascertaining the strength of spirits by Clarke's hydrometer, until June 1, 1801; and so much of an act, made in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for better securing the duties on glass, as was to continue for a limited time, until July 5, 1799.
Citation38 Geo. 3. c. 35
Territorial extent Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent5 April 1798
Commencement5 April 1798
Repealed21 August 1871
Other legislation
AmendsSee § Continued enactments
Repealed byStatute Law Revision Act 1871
Relates to
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Continuance of Laws Act 1798 (38 Geo. 3. c. 35) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that continued various older acts.