Sunday Fairs Act 1448

United Kingdom legislation

Sunday Fairs Act 1448^[1]
Dates
Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long title	The scandal of holding fairs and markets on Sundays and upon high feast days ...^[2]
Citation	27 Hen. 6. c. 5
Royal assent	16 July 1449
Commencement	12 February 1449
Other legislation
Repealed by	Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969
Status: Repealed

The Sunday Fairs Act 1448 (27 Hen. 6. c. 5) was an Act of the Parliament of England.

The words from "Provided always that" to the end were repealed by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948.

The whole Chapter was repealed by section 1 of, and Part IV of the Schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969.

The repeal of the Sunday Fairs Act 1448 by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 does not have the effect of requiring any market or fair to be held on a Sunday, Good Friday, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi Day, the Feast of the Assumption of Our Blessed Lady or All Saints' Day; and a market or fair may continue to be held on any day on which it might lawfully have been held if the Sunday Fairs Act 1448 had not been repealed.^[3]

References

Halsbury's Statutes,

^ The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
^ These words are printed against this Act in the second column of Schedule 2 to the Statute Law Revision Act 1948, which is headed "Title".
^ The Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969, section 4(1)

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