List of Acts of the 1st Session of the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom

Public General Acts

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| { { |Post Office and Telegraph (Money) Act 1959|public|2|17-12-1959|An Act to provide further money for expenses of the Post Office properly chargeable to capital account; and for purposes connected therewith.}} |- | { { |Marshall Scholarships Act 1959|public|3|17-12-1959|maintained=y|An Act to increase the number of Marshall scholarships which may be provided in each year.}} |- | { { |Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1959|public|4|17-12-1959|An Act to continue certain expiring laws.}} |- | { { |Atomic Energy Authority Act 1959|public|5|17-12-1959|maintained=y|An Act to increase the maximum number of members of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, and to enable the Authority to include in their pension schemes staff of the National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science.}} |- | { { |Commonwealth Scholarships Act 1959|public|6|17-12-1959|maintained=y|An Act to make provision for matters arising out of the recommendations of the Commonwealth Education Conference.}} |- | { { |Sea Fish Industry Act 1959|public|7|17-12-1959|An Act to increase the aggregate amounts of grants made in pursuance of schemes under sections one and five of the White Fish and Herring Industries Act, 1953, and section three of the White Fish and Herring Industries Act, 1957, and otherwise to amend the provisions as to schemes under those Acts; to authorise measures for the increase or improvement of marine resources; to make further provision for regulating the catching of sea-fish and for licensing fishing-boats; and for purposes connected with those matters.}} |- | { { |Lord High Commissioner (Church of Scotland) Act 1959|public|8|17-12-1959|An Act to increase the allowance payable to Her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.}} |- | { { |Judicial Pensions Act 1959|public|9|17-12-1959|maintained=y|An Act to amend the law with respect to the pensions and other benefits attaching to certain high judicial offices, to regulate the age of retirement from such offices, and to increase certain pensions and other benefits granted to or in respect of persons who have held such offices.}} |- | { { |Consolidated Fund Act 1960|public|10|22-03-1960|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 nine hundred and sixty and one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one.}} |- | { { |Foreign Service Act 1960|public|11|22-03-1960|An Act to amend the law as to the superannuation benefits which may be granted to or in respect of certain members of Her Majesty's foreign service.}} |- | { { |Distress for Rates Act 1960|public|12|22-03-1960|An Act to consolidate, with corrections and improvements made under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act, 1949, certain enactments relating to the recovery of rates.}} |- | { { |Air Corporations Act 1960|public|13|22-03-1960|An Act to increase the borrowing powers of the British Overseas Airways Corporation and the British European Airways Corporation.}} |- | { { |Cinematograph Films Act 1960|public|14|22-03-1960|An Act to amend the Cinematograph Films Acts, 1938 and 1948.}} |- | { { |Water Officers Compensation Act 1960|public|15|22-03-1960|maintained=y|An Act to amend the law relating to compensation for officers and servants of water undertakers affected by orders under the Water Act, 1945, or by combinations or orders under the Water (Scotland) Act, 1946.}} |- | { { |Road Traffic Act 1960|public|16|22-03-1960|maintained=y|An Act to consolidate, with corrections and improvements made under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act, 1949, certain enactments relating to road traffic.}} |- | { { |Coal Industry Act 1960|public|17|22-03-1960|An Act to authorise further advances to the National Coal Board for capital purposes.}} |- | { { |Local Employment Act 1960|public|18|22-03-1960|maintained=y|An Act to make provision to promote employment in localities in England, Scotland and Wales where high and persistent unemployment exists or is threatened, and to make consequential provision as respects the industrial estate companies; to amend subsection (4) of section fourteen of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, and subsection (4) of section twelve of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947 (industrial development certificates); and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}} |- | { { |European Free Trade Association Act 1960|public|19|22-03-1960|An Act to make provision for matters arising out of the establishment of the European Free Trade Association or otherwise out of agreements relating to trade made with members of the Association; and to repeal the Dyestuffs (Import Regulation) Acts, 1920 and 1934.}} |- | { { |Requisitioned Houses Act 1960|public|2