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Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1887 (repealed)

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Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1887 (repealed)

1887 c.70

Enacted
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1  Lord of Appeal may take his seat during prorogation.

F2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notwithstanding anything in the eighth section of the said Act X1M1 contained, every Lord of Appeal shall be empowered to take his seat and the oaths at any such sitting X2 of the House of Lords during prorogation.

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3  Amendment of 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 41.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as formed under the provisions of the first section of the M2Judicial Committee Act 1833 shall include such members of Her Majesty’s Privy Council as are for the time being holding or have held any of the offices in the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 and this Act, described as high judicial offices but no person shall be a member of that Committee by virtue of this section at any time after the day on which he attains the age of seventy-five years F5....

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5  Amendment of 39 & 40 Vict. c. 59. s. 25.

The expression “high judicial office” as defined in the twenty-fifth section of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 shall be deemed to include the office of a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and the office of a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

6  Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1887.

Footnotes

  1. F1
    Act repealed (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 145, 146, 148(1), Sch. 17 para. 11, Sch. 18 Pt. 5; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(e)(f)
  2. F2
    Recital omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)
  3. X1
    "The said Act" means the Appellate Jurisdiction Act
  4. M1
    1876 c. 59
  5. X2
    "any such sitting" means any sitting for hearing and determining appeals
  6. F3
    S. 2 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XIX
  7. M2
    1833 c. 41.
  8. F4
    Words in s. 3 added (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 1(1) (with Sch. 7 paras. 2(2), 3(2), 4); S.I. 1995/631, art.2
  9. F5
    Words in s. 3 omitted (3.4.2006) by virtue of The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) (No.2) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1016), arts. 1, 2, Sch. 1 para. 4
  10. F6
    S. 4 repealed by Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1929 (c. 8), s. 1(7)