This is an incomplete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1885. 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 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 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 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 the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3". Acts passed from 1963 onwards are simply cited by calendar year and chapter number.

All modern acts have a short title, e.g. the Local Government Act 2003. Some earlier acts also have a short title given to them by later acts, such as by the Short Titles Act 1896.

48 & 49 Vict.

Continuing the sixth session of the 22nd Parliament of the United Kingdom, which met from 23 October 1884 until 14 August 1885.

Public general acts

{{legislationuk|act |- | {{|Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1885|public|6|28-03-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898) }}

| {{|Cape of Good Hope (Advance) Act 1885|public|7|28-03-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to authorise an advance to the Government of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898) }}

| {{|Army (Annual) Act 1885|public|8|28-04-1885|archived=n|An Act to provide, during twelve months, for the Discipline and Regulation of the Army.}}

| {{|Municipal Voters Relief Act 1885|public|9|28-04-1885|archived=n|An Act to relieve Municipal Voters from being disqualified in consequence of letting their Dwelling-houses for short periods.}}


| {{|Elections (Hours of Poll) Act 1885|public|10|28-04-1885|archived=n|An Act to extend the Hours of Polling at Parliamentary and Municipal Elections.}}

| {{|Egyptian Loan Act 1885|public|11|21-05-1885|archived=n|An Act to enable Her Majesty to give a Guarantee for the purpose of facilitating the raising of a Loan by the Government of Egypt.}}

| {{|Constabulary (Ireland) Redistribution Act 1885|public|12|21-05-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law relating to the Distribution of the Royal Irish Constabulary Force.}}

| {{|Highway Act Amendment Act 1885|public|13|21-05-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law relating to Highways.|note4=
(Repealed by Highways Act 1959) }}

| {{|Consolidated Fund (No. 3) Act 1885|public|14|21-05-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to apply the sum of thirteen million three hundred and fifteen thousand three hundred and thirty four pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898) }}

| {{|Registration Act 1885|public|15|21-05-1885|archived=n|An Act to assimilate the Law affecting the Registration of Occupation Voters in Counties and Boroughs, and for other purposes.}}

| {{|Registration Amendment (Scotland) Act 1885|public|16|21-05-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law regulating the Registration of Voters in Scotland; and for other purposes relating thereto.}}

| {{|Parliamentary Registration (Ireland) Act 1885|public|17|21-05-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the law relating to the Registration of Parliamentary Voters in Ireland, and for other purposes connected therewith.}}

| {{|Metropolitan Streets Act 1885|public|18|21-05-1885|repealed=y|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to extend the Area to which the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867, applies.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993) }}

| {{|Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act 1885|public|19|21-05-1885|archived=n|An Act further to facilitate the building, enlargement, and maintenance of Industrial Schools in Ireland.}}


| {{|Barristers Admission (Ireland) Act 1885|public|20|21-05-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law relating to the Admission of Barristers in Ireland.}}

| {{|Burial Boards (Contested Elections) Act 1885|public|21|25-06-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law with respect to Contested Elections of Burial Boards.}}

| {{|Public Health and Local Government Conferences Act 1885|public|22|25-06-1885|archived=n|An Act to provide for Expenses incurred in relation to Conferences of Local Authorities.}}

| {{|Redistribution of Seats Act 1885|public|23|25-06-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act for the Redistribution of Seats at Parliamentary Elections, and for other Purposes.|note4=
(Repealed by Representation of the People Act 1918) }}

| {{|Annuity for Princess Beatrice Act 1885|public|24|25-06-1885|archived=n|An Act to enable Her Majesty to settle an Annuity on Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore.}}

| {{|East India Unclaimed Stock Act 1885|public|25|16-07-1885|archived=n|An Act for making provision for the transfer to the Secretary of State in Council of India of Unclaimed India Stock and Dividends; and for amending the East Indian Railway Company Purchase Act, 1879, and the East Indian Railway (Redemption of Annuities) Act, 1881; and for other purposes.}}

| {{|Yorkshire Registries Amendment Act 1885|public|26|16-07-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Yorkshire Registries Act, 1884.}}

| {{|Friendly Societies Amendment Act 1885|public|27|16-07-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to declare the true meaning of section twenty-two of the Friendly Societies Act, 1875.|note4=
(Repealed by Friendly Societies Act 1887) }}

| {{|East India Loan Act 1885|public|28|22-07-1885|archived=n|An Act to enable the Secretary of State in Council of India to raise Money in the United Kingdom for the Service of the Government of India.}}

| {{|Honorary Freedom of Boroughs Act 1885|public|29|22-07-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to enable municipal corporations to confer the honorary freedom of boroughs upon persons of distinction.|note4=
(Repealed by Local Government Act 1933) }}


| {{|Local Loans Sinking Funds Act 1885|public|30|22-07-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Local Loans Act, 1875, as regards the establishment of a Sinking Fund.}}

| {{|Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1885|public|31|22-07-1885|archived=n|An Act for amending the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Acts, and for other purposes.}}

| {{|Tithe Rentcharge Redemption Act 1885|public|32|22-07-1885|repealed=y|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to amend and extend the Acts relating to the redemption of Tithe Rentcharge in England and Wales.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998) }}

| {{|Metropolis Management Amendment Act 1885|public|33|31-07-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Metropolis Management Acts.}}

| {{|Water Rate Definition Act 1885|public|34|31-07-1885|repealed=n|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to declare and explain the sixty–eighth section of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847.}}

| {{|Public Health (Ships, &c.) Act 1885|public|35|31-07-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Public Health Act, 1875, in relation to Ships and Port Sanitary Authorities.}}

| {{|Artillery and Rifle Ranges Act 1885|public|36|31-07-1885|archived=n|An Act to provide for the regulation of land held by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State or a Volunteer Corps for an Artillery or Rifle Range, or a School of Gunnery, or like purposes.}}

| {{|Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act 1885|public|37|31-07-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts, and to repeal certain other Turnpike Acts; and for other purposes connected therewith.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898) }}

| {{|School Boards Act 1885|public|38|31-07-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law relating to School Boards so far as affected by the incorporation of a Municipal Borough and as respects the divisions of the Metropolis.}}

| {{|Cholera Hospitals (Ireland) Act 1885|public|39|31-07-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to enable the sanitary authorities in Ireland to take possession of land for the erection of temporary Cholera Hospitals.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898) }}


| {{|Polehampton Estates Act 1885|public|40|31-07-1885|archived=n|An Act to provide for the application to charitable purposes of such portion of the property subject to the Will of Edward Polehampton as is now vested in the Crown, and for the management and application of the said property.}}

| {{|Shannon Act 1885|public|41|31-07-1885|archived=n|An Act to make provision with respect to the maintenance of certain Piers and other works in the estuary of the River Shannon.}}

| {{|Greenwich Hospital Act 1885|public|42|31-07-1885|repealed=n|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to provide for defraying the Expenditure on account of Greenwich Hospital directly out of the Revenues of Greenwich Hospital; to amend in other respects the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1883; and to amend the law relating to the Naval Knights of Windsor.}}

| {{|National Debt Act 1885|public|43|31-07-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to suspend for a period certain Payments on Annuities created under the National Debt Act, 1883; and to reduce for a like period the Permanent Annual Charge of the National Debt.|note4=
(Repealed by National Debt and Local Loans Act 1887) }}

| {{|Exchequer and Treasury Bills Act 1885|public|44|31-07-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to raise the sum of Four million pounds by Exchequer Bills or Treasury Bills, for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898) }}

| {{|Post Office (Sites) Act 1885|public|45|31-07-1885|archived=n|An Act to enable Her Majesty's Postmaster General to acquire lands in London, Birmingham, Bristol, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne for the public service.}}

| {{|Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act 1885|public|46|06-08-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to prevent Medical Relief disqualifying a person from voting.|note4=
(Repealed by Representation of the People Act 1918) }}

| {{|Bankruptcy (Office Accommodation) Act 1885|public|47|06-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to enable the Treasury to provide out of surplus funds arising under the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, office accommodation for officers appointed under the said Act.}}

| {{|Earldom of Mar Restitution Act 1885|public|48|06-08-1885|archived=n|An Act for restitution of the ancient dignity and title of Earl of Mar.}}

| {{|Submarine Telegraph Act 1885|public|49|06-08-1885|repealed=n|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to carry into effect an International Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables.}}


| {{|Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Act 1885|public|50|06-08-1885|archived=n|An Act further to amend the Acts relating to the raising of Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works; and for other purposes.}}

| {{|Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1885|public|51|06-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to grant certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue, and to amend the laws relating to Customs and Inland Revenue.}}

| {{|Lunacy Acts Amendment Act 1885|public|52|06-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law relating to Lunatics.}}

| {{|Public Health (Members and Officers) Act 1885|public|53|06-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Public Health Act, 1875, with respect to the Members and Officers of Local Authorities.}}

| {{|Pluralities Acts Amendment Act 1885|public|54|06-08-1885|repealed=n|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law relating to Pluralities.}}

| {{|Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840, Amendment Act 1885|public|55|06-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to explain section thirty-four of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840.}}

| {{|Parliamentary Elections Corrupt Practices Act 1885|public|56|06-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law with respect to Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections.}}

| {{|Revising Barristers Act 1885|public|57|06-08-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to remove doubts as to the appointment of Revising Barristers.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898) }}

| {{|Telegraph Act 1885|public|58|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1878.}}

| {{|Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1885|public|59|14-08-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to continue various expiring Laws.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898) }}


| {{|Federal Council of Australasia Act 1885|public|60|14-08-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to constitute a Federal Council of Australasia.|note4=
(Repealed by Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900) }}

| {{|Secretary for Scotland Act 1885|public|61|14-08-1885|repealed=n|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act for appointing a Secretary for Scotland and Vice-President of the Scotch Education Department.}}

| {{|Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act 1885|public|62|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the law relating to the Charges of Returning Officers at Parliamentary Elections.}}

| {{|Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks (Amendment) Act 1885|public|63|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883.}}

| {{|Appropriation Act 1885|public|64|14-08-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898) }}

| {{|Public Works Loans Act 1885|public|65|14-08-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to appoint Public Works Loan Commissioners, to grant Money for the purpose of Loans by the Public Works Loan Commissioners and the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland and for the purpose of loans and purchases by the Irish Land Commission, and to make other provisions relating to those Commissioners.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898) }}

| {{|Registration Appeals (Ireland) Act 1885|public|66|14-08-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to accelerate the hearing of Appeals under the Acts relating to the Registration of Voters in Ireland in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.|note4=
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898) }}

| {{|Indian Army Pension Deficiency Act 1885|public|67|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to provide for the discharge of the liability of the Consolidated Fund in respect of certain Indian Army Pensions.}}

| {{|Metropolitan Police Staff Superannuation Act 1885|public|68|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Metropolitan Police Staff Superannuation Act, 1875.}}

| {{|Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885|public|69|14-08-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to make further provision for the Protection of Women and Girls, the suppression of brothels, and other purposes.|note4=
(Repealed by Sexual Offences Act 1956) }}


| {{|Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment Act 1885|public|70|14-08-1885|repealed=n|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law relating to Scottish Sea Fisheries and for other purposes relating thereto.}}

| {{|County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Amendment Act 1885|public|71|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877, in relation to the Pensions of Clerks of the Crown and Clerks of the Peace.}}

| {{|Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885|public|72|14-08-1885|repealed=n|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law relating to Dwellings of the Working Classes.}}

| {{|Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act 1885|note1=
or the Ashbourne Act[1]|public|73|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to provide greater facilities for the Sale of Land to occupying Tenants in Ireland.}}

| {{|Evidence by Commission Act 1885|public|74|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law relating to taking Evidence by Commission in India and the Colonies, and elsewhere in Her Majesty's Dominions.}}

| {{|Prevention of Crimes Amendment Act 1885|public|75|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871.}}

| {{|Thames Preservation Act 1885|public|76|14-08-1885|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act for the preservation of the River Thames above Teddington Lock for purposes of public recreation, and for regulating the pleasure traffic thereon.|note4=
(Repealed by Thames Conservancy Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii)) }}

| {{|Labourers (Ireland) Act 1885|public|77|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1883, and for other purposes connected with Labourers Dwellings in Ireland.}}

| {{|Educational Endowments (Ireland) Act 1885|public|78|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to re-organize the Educational Endowments of Ireland.}}

| {{|Crown Lands Act 1885|public|79|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act to amend the Law relating to the management of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown.}}

| {{|Union Officers (Ireland) Act 1885|public|80|14-08-1885|archived=n|An Act for enabling Allowances to be made to the Officers of Poor Law Unions in Ireland, on abolition of Office.}}

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Local acts

{{legislationuk|act |- | {{|Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation Act 1885|local|1|23-10-1884|note3=[lower-alpha 1]|repealed=n|archived=n||po1=Bolton Order 1885| |po2=Honiton Order 1885| |po3=Mansfield Order 1885| |po4=Milford Order 1885| |po5=Stockton Order 1885|}}

| {{|Corporation of London (Tower Bridge) Act 1885|local|195|14-08-1885|repealed=n|maintained=n|archived=n|An Act to empower the Corporation of London to construct a Bridge over the River Thames near the Tower of London with approaches thereto and for other purposes.}}

| {{|Worcester and Broom Railway Act 1885|local|200|23-10-1884|note3=[lower-alpha 1]|repealed=y|archived=n| |note4=
(Repealed by Worcester and Broom Railway (Abandonment) Act 1894 (c.xi)) }}

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Private acts

{{legislationuk|act |- | {{|Naturalization of Prince Henry of Battenberg Act 1885|private|1|06-08-1885|repealed=n|archived=n|An Act to Naturalise His Royal Highness Prince Henry Maurice, of Battenberg, and to grant and confer on him all the Rights, Privileges, and Capacities of a Natural-born Subject of Her Majesty the Queen.}}

| {{|Leeds Coloured Cloth Hall Act 1885|private|2|06-08-1885|repealed=n|archived=n|An Act to enable the Trustees of the Leeds Coloured Cloth Hall to sell the same, and to regulate the Application of the Purchase Money, and for other purposes.}}

| {{|Earl de la Warr's Estate Act 1885|private|3|06-08-1885|repealed=n|archived=n|An Act to enable the Trustees of the Earl De La Warr's Settled Estates to raise money on the security of the Estates comprised in a Settlement of the 30th day of January 1877, and to apply the money for the furtherance of building on the Bexhill Estate, in the County of Sussex, comprised in such Settlement, and to grant options of purchase of parts of the Bexhill Estate, and for other purposes.}}

| {{|Lord Haldon's Estate Act 1885|private|4|06-08-1885|repealed=n|archived=n|An Act to facilitate Sales of Settled Estates of the Right Honourable Lawrence Hesketh, Lord Haldon, at Torquay and elsewhere, and to raise Money for payment of the Charges on his Life Estate in such Estates, and for the Repair and Improvement of such Estates, and for vesting in Trustees certain Policies of Assurance on the Life of Lord Haldon, and for other purposes.}}

| {{|Towneley Estates Act 1885|private|5|06-08-1885|repealed=n|archived=n|An Act for carrying into effect the Division of certain Hereditaments known as the Towneley Estate, in the Counties of Lancaster and York; the Estate in the Forest of Bowland, in the same Counties; and the Stella and Stanley Estates, in the County of Durham, and for other purposes.}}

| {{|Foundling Hospital Act 1885|private|6|06-08-1885|repealed=n|archived=n|An Act to confirm certain Powers contained in the Charter of the Governors and Guardians of the Hospital, commonly called "The Foundling Hospital."}}

| {{|Ramsden Estate Act 1885|private|7|06-08-1885|repealed=n|archived=n|An Act for giving further Powers to the Leasing Authority and general Trustees of "The Ramsden Estate Act, 1867;" and for varying in some respects the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes.}}

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Sources

  • "The Public General Statutes, Volume 21: 48 & 49 Victoria – 1884-5". Law Reports, Statutes. 1867 – via HathiTrust.
  • The Public General Acts: 48 & 49 Victoria – 1884-5. Proprietors of the Law Journal Reports – via Internet Archive.
  • Journal of the House of Commons. Vol. 140. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 3–417.
  • Chronological Table of and Index to the Statutes. Vol. 1: To the End of the Session 59 Vict. Sess. 2 (1895) (13th ed.). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1896. pp. 513–516 – via Google Books.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Paul-DuBois, L. (2008). Contemporary Ireland. Read Books. p. 271. ISBN 978-1-4437-7148-1.
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