List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1937

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 nine hundred and thirty-seven.

An Act to provide for charging duties of customs on beef and veal and on extracts and essences of beef or veal, and for purposes connected with the matter aforesaid.

An Act to explain and amend sections two hundred and ninety-two and two hundred and ninety-three of the Government of India Act, 1935, and sections one hundred and forty-eight and one hundred and forty-nine of the Government of Burma Act, 1935.

An Act to extend, until the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, the period in respect of which grants are to be paid to local authorities out of moneys provided by Parliament under section one of the Unemployment Assistance (Temporary Provisions) (No. 2) Act, 1935; to provide for the adjustment of such grants between local authorities; and to amend section forty-five of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934.

An Act to grant money for the purpose of certain local loans out of the Local Loans Fund, and for other purposes relating to local loans.

An Act to consolidate the provisions of the Firearms Acts, 1920 to 1936, relating to firearms, imitation firearms and other weapons and to ammunition.

An Act to provide money for the defence services, and for purposes connected therewith.

An Act to authorise the Secretary of State to borrow in sterling on behalf of the Governor-General of India in Council during the period with respect to which Part XIII of the Government of India Act, 1935, applies; to repeal and reproduce with modifications and adaptations enactments relating to certain financial obligations of the Secretary of State in Council of India, and otherwise to amend the law in relation to certain of those obligations; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

An Act to enable effect to be given to Article twenty-eight of the International Convention for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in armies in the field done at Geneva on the twenty-seventh day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, and for purposes connected therewith.

An Act to make provision for a Regency in the event of the Sovereign being on His Accession under the age of eighteen years, and in the event of the incapacity of the Sovereign through illness, and for the performance of certain of the royal functions in the name and on behalf of the Sovereign in certain other events; to repeal the Lords Justices Act, 1837; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

An Act to amend section one of the Reserve Forces and Militia Act, 1898, by extending the period of liability to be called out on permanent service thereunder.

An Act to amend the Empire Settlement Act, 1922.

An Act to amend the law relating to merchant shipping for the purpose of enabling effect to be given to an international agreement for establishing a system of observation of the Spanish frontiers.

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 thirty-six, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, and one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight.

An Act to extend by twelve months the period in respect of which subsidies are payable under Part I of the British Shipping (Assistance) Act, 1935, as amended by the British Shipping (Continuance of Subsidy) Act, 1936, and to provide for the payment of such subsidies and of the expenses of the Board of Trade under the said Part I, in respect of the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, out of moneys provided by Parliament.

An Act to amend Part VI of the Local Government Act, 1929; and to repeal section forty-five of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934, and the proviso to paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section nine of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925.

An Act to make further provision to the submergence of load lines and as to the life-saving appliances of fishing boats.

An Act to amend the description of the persons with whom arrangements may be made under the National Health Insurance Act, 1936, for the dispensing of medicines.

An Act to lower the age at which the period of compulsory education begins in the case of deaf children.

An Act to provide, during Twelve Months, for the Discipline and Regulation of the Army and the Air Force.

An Act to authorise an increase in the amount of certain payments by County Councils to the County Councils Association.

An Act to make provision for the acquisition and construction by local authorities of harbours, piers, ferries and boatslips in Scotland, for the construction of new works connected therewith, and for the fixing and revision of dues thereat, and at certain inland navigation undertakings, and for other purposes relating to the matters aforesaid.

An Act to amend Part III of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, and to repeal, so far as relating to Scotland, section forty-five of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934.

An Act to make further provision with respect to maternity services in Scotland, to amend the Midwives (Scotland) Act, 1915, and to provide for the combination of local authorities for certain purposes under the Notification of Births (Extension) Act, 1915.

An Act to continue until the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, the Special Areas (Development and Improvement) Act, 1934, and to enable further assistance to be given to the areas specified in the First Schedule to that Act, and to certain other areas.

An Act to make provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown and the Royal Family, and for the payment of certain allowances and pensions; to enable His Majesty to assent to arrangements on behalf of any son of His Majesty being Duke of Cornwall for the payment of certain sums out of the revenues of the Duchy during the minority of the said Duke; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
(Repealed by Sovereign Grant Act 2011)

An Act to prevent the spreading of disease among salmon and freshwater fish in Great Britain.
(Repealed by the Aquatic Animal Health (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (SI 2009/463) and the Aquatic Animal Health (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/85))

An Act to amend the law with respect to valuations of sheep stock in Scotland.
(Repealed by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991)

An Act to make further provision as to the amount of the salaries payable in respect of certain offices; and to make consequential amendments in the enactments relating thereto.

An Act to make provision for the payment of the travelling expenses incurred by persons in discharging their duties in connection with assessment and other committees.

An Act to consolidate in their application to Scotland certain enactments relating to persons under the age of eighteen years.

An Act to regulate the salaries payable in respect of certain Administrative Offices of State; to provide for the payment of additional salaries to members of the Cabinet holding offices at salaries less than five thousand pounds a year, of a salary to any person being Prime Minister, of pensions to persons who have been Prime Minister, and of a salary to any person being Leader of the Opposition; to simplify the law as to the capacity of persons holding offices of profit to sit and vote in Parliament; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

An Act to extend the classes of persons who can become insured as voluntary contributors for the purposes of widows', orphans' and old age contributory pensions, and otherwise to amend, in relation to voluntary contributors and women engaged in certain excepted employments, the enactments relating to such pensions and to health insurance, to amend section thirty of the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1936, and section four of the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1932, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

An Act to amend the law with respect to the discharge of trade effluents into public sewers of local authorities.

An Act to increase to five hundred and fifty million pounds the aggregate amount which may be issued to the Exchange Equalisation Account out of the Consolidated Fund.

All Act to amend the law with respect to the exportation of horses; and for purposes connected therewith.

An Act to make better provision for the preservation, care and custody of the Public Records of Scotland, and for the discharge of the duties of Principal Extractor of the Court of Session.

An Act to provide that motor vehicles used under certain conditions are not to be deemed to be stage or express carriages or vehicles carrying passengers for hire or reward at separate fares, and to amend section three of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933.

An Act to regulate the fumigation of premises and articles with hydrogen cyanide; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

An Act to provide for the development of facilities for, and the encouragement of, physical training and recreation, and to facilitate the establishment of centres for social activities.

An Act to amend the Teachers (Superannuation) Acts, 1918 to 1935, and to provide for amendment of the Superannuation Scheme framed under the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts, 1919 to 1935, so as to permit allocation of part of a teacher's or educational organiser's superannuation benefits to a spouse or dependant, and to make further and better provision for the payment of contributions when service is discontinued; to extend paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (1) of section twenty-one of the Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1925, to educational organisers; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

An Act to control the sale in Scotland of methylated spirits or surgical spirit and of methylated spirits in admixture; and for other purposes connected therewith.
(Repealed by Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005)

An Act to amend the law relating to trade marks.

An Act to make provision for the development and better organisation of the livestock industry and industries connected therewith; for paying a subsidy to producers of fat cattle; for regulating the importation of livestock and meat, the holding of livestock markets and the slaughtering of livestock; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
(Repealed by Agriculture Act 1957)

An Act to provide for raising further money for the development of the postal, telegraphic, and telephonic systems, and for raising money for the purpose of repaying to the Post Office Fund moneys applied thereout for such development.

An Act to make provision with respect to the term of office of persons holding the office of chairman of traffic commissioners, of traffic commissioner for the metropolitan traffic area, of chairman of the appeal tribunal established by section fifteen of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, or of President of the Railway Rates Tribunal, and with respect to the application to such persons of the Superannuation Acts.

An Act to provide for the Regulation of Wages of Workers in Agriculture in Scotland, and for purposes incidental thereto.

An Act to grant certain duties of Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise), to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise) and the National Debt, and to make further provision in connection with finance.

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 nine hundred and thirty-eight, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

An Act to make provision for the ascertainment and registration of particulars as to proprietary interests in unworked coal and mines of coal and in certain associated minerals, property and rights in land, and for purposes connected therewith.
(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973)

An Act to amend the law relating to marriage and divorce.

An Act to amend the law with respect to the determination by justices of disputes in matters of matrimony, bastardy and the guardianship of infants and other similar matters; to extend the duties of probation officers; and for purposes connected therewith.

An Act to prohibit the exhibition or distribution of cinematograph films in connection with the production of which suffering may have been caused to animals; and for purposes connected therewith.

An Act to extend further the duration of certain temporary provisions contained in the Rating and Valuation Act, 1928.

An Act to amend and consolidate the Overseas Trade Acts, 1920 to 1934.

An Act to amend the law relating to the employment of boys underground in coal mines.

An Act to remit any sums which have become or may become payable to the Exchequer under section three of the Royal Niger Company Act, 1899,^[a] and to extinguish the liability for the payment of such sums.

An Act to amend the law with respect to customs in the Isle of Man.

An Act to enable effect to be given to a Treaty signed in London on behalf of His Majesty and certain other Powers.

An Act to extend, with amendments, certain temporary provisions of the Milk Acts, 1934 and 1936, and otherwise to amend the said Acts.

An Act to consolidate, with amendments, the Factory and Workshop Acts, 1901 to 1929, and other enactments relating to factories; and for purposes connected with the purposes aforesaid.

An Act to make further and better provision with respect to the payment of superannuation allowances and gratuities by local authorities and certain statutory undertakers, and with respect to the persons entitled to participate in the benefits of a local authority's superannuation fund or scheme, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

An Act to make further and better provision with respect to the payment of superannuation allowances and gratuities by local authorities and certain statutory undertakers in Scotland, and with respect to the persons entitled to participate in the benefits of a local authority's superannuation fund or scheme, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

An Act to assist farmers to increase the fertility of their land; to provide for securing farmers against any substantial fall in the price of oats and barley, and to raise the limit of the quantity of wheat in respect of which deficiency payments under the Wheat Act, 1932, may be made at the full rate; to make further grants for land drainage; to promote the eradication of diseases of animals and poultry, and with that object to establish a national service of veterinary inspectors; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

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Greenock Burgh Extension, &c. Order 1937

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the Evesham and Pershore Joint Hospital District.

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the Port of Manchester.

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation (General Powers) Act 1935 relating to Newcastle-upon-Tyne Trolley Vehicles.

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the borough of Bedford.
(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1995)

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the borough of Colwyn Bay.
(Repealed by Clwyd County Council Act 1985 (c. xliv))

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the East Hertfordshire Joint Hospital District.

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the Waltham Joint Hospital District.

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the Wisbech Joint Isolation Hospital District.

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the borough of Ealing.
(Repealed by Local Law (North West London Boroughs) Order 1965 (SI 1965/533))

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the counties of Somerset and Wiltshire.

An Act to authorise the sale of the undertaking of the Liverpool Exchange Company Limited to confer further powers upon that company and the purchaser of the undertaking and for other purposes.
(Repealed by Liverpool Exchange Act 1988 (c. ix))

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936 relating to Rothesay Water.

Edinburgh Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital Order 1937

Kingston-upon-Hull Order 1937

(Repealed by Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Valley Water (Third Schedule) Order 1972 (SI 1972/752))

An Act to confer upon the Brighton Hove and Worthing Gas Company powers with reference to the making of provision for supplies of gas in certain cases and for other purposes.

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the Earsdon Joint Hospital District.

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the South Nottinghamshire Joint Hospital District.
(Repealed by Nottinghamshire County Council Act 1985 (c. xv))

An Act to confer further powers upon the General Cemetery Company and for other purposes.

An Act to confirm a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the application or management of the Charity called the Magdalen Hospital in the County of London.

Scheme for the application or management of the Charity called the Magdalen Hospital in the County of London regulated by the Magdalen Hospital Act 1768 the Magdalen Hospital Amendment Act 1848 and the Magdalen Hospital Amendment Act 1866.

An Act to confirm a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the application or management of the Charity called or known as the Poor's Allotments in the Ancient Parish of Walton-upon-Thames in the County of Surrey.

Scheme for the application or management of the Charity called or known as the Poor's Allotments in the Ancient Parish of Walton-upon-Thames in the County of Surrey founded by the Inclosure Act 39 and 40 Geo. III. c. lxxxvi.^[d]

Glasgow Corporation Order 1937

An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936 relating to the London Midland and Scottish Railway.

Johnstone Burgh Order 1937

Grangemouth Burgh Extension Order 1937

An Act for conferring further powers upon the Great Western Railway Company in respect of their own undertaking and upon that company and the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company in respect of an undertaking in which they are jointly interested and upon the Great Western and Great Central Railways Joint Committee and for other purposes.

An Act to empower the Southern Railway Company to construct a railway and other works and to acquire lands to extend the time for the completion of certain works and the compulsory purchase of certain lands and for other purposes.

An Act to authorise the Burgess Hill Water Company to construct new works to extend the limits of supply of the Company and to raise additional capital and for other purposes.
(Repealed by Mid-Sussex Water Order 1985 (SI 1985/513))

An Act to authorise the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the county borough of West Ham to execute street works and to acquire lands for those and other purposes to extend the time for the completion of certain works and the compulsory acquisition of certain lands to confer further powers upon the Corporation and to make further and better provision for the health local government improvement and finance of the said county borough and for other purposes.

(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1995)

An Act to transfer to the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Company the undertakings of the Harrow Electric Light and Power Company Limited to make new provision as to the rights of purchase of the urban district council of Harrow and for other purposes.

An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of a bridge in the counties of Berks and Buckingham across the river Thames and approach roads thereto and for other purposes.
(Repealed by Berkshire Act 1986 (c. ii))

Glasgow Streets, Sewers and Buildings Consolidation Order 1937

An Act to confer further powers upon the Staffordshire County Council to make further provision with respect to the local government and finance of the county of Stafford and for other purposes.
(Repealed by Staffordshire Act 1983 (c. xviii))

An Act to authorise the extension and improvement of Billingsgate Market to vary the financial powers of the Corporation and for other purposes.

(Repealed by Essex Act 1987 (c. xx))

(Repealed by London County Council (Loans) Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. xxvi))

An Act to empower the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Richmond (Surrey) to construct street works to confer further powers upon them with respect to their water undertaking to make better provision with respect to the health local government and finance of the borough and for other purposes.

(Repealed by Hastings Pier Act 1985 (c. xxxiii))

An Act to alter the constitution of the Conservators of Ashdown Forest to confer further powers upon the said Conservators and to provide for contributions towards their expenses by certain authorities and for other purposes.
(Repealed by Ashdown Forest Act 1974 (c. xxi))

An Act to empower the Newquay and District Water Company to extend their limits for the supply of water to empower them to raise further capital to confer further powers upon the Company and for other purposes.

An Act to confer further powers upon the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty and for other purposes.

An Act to make further provision in regard to the undertaking of the Taf Fechan Water Supply Board to confer further powers upon that Board and the constituent authorities thereof and for other purposes.
(Repealed by Taf Fechan Water Board Order 1964 (SI 1965/1588))

(Repealed by Humberside Act 1982 (c. iii))

Cleethorpes Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Order 1937

(Repealed by Walsall Corporation Act 1969 (c. lviii))

(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977)

(Repealed by Luton Water Order 1960 (SI 1960/1515))

(Repealed by East Sussex Act 1981 (c. xxv))

An Act to authorise the Kent Electric Power Company to raise additional capital and for other purposes.

An Act to confer further powers on the Wessex Electricity Company and for other purposes.

Falmouth Harbour Order 1937

Culag (Lochinver) Pier Order 1937

Fowey Harbour Order 1937

Maidenhead Water Order 1937

Sevenoaks Water Order 1937

(Repealed by East Sussex Act 1981 (c. xxv))

Motherwell and Wishaw Burgh Order 1937

Coatbridge Burgh Extension, &c. Order 1937

(Repealed by Edinburgh Corporation Order Confirmation Act 1962 (11 & 12 Eliz. 2. c. ii))

(Repealed by West Yorkshire Act 1980 (c. xiv))

(Repealed by Humberside Act 1982 (c. iii))

Tonbridge Water Order 1937