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Is there any reasons why the years 1914, 1916 and 1918 are duplicated in the article? If there is, then the section headings need to be made clearer to point out the differences between them. If not, then the sections need to be merged to remove the duplicated entries they contain. Can anyone see any reason to retain them? Road Wizard 20:12, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
doesn't appear to be included in the list. a reference to it can be found here. Doldrums 17:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Please see the talk page at Talk:List of Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament, 1801-1819 for current discussion of possible changes to these lists. Silverhelm 09:08, 14 December 2006 (UTC).
would it make sense to split off the Great Britain legislation to the previous list? It very nearly aligns with a century break, so would be handy. Morwen - Talk 12:41, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm concerned about the accuracy of the short title given for a number of these Acts (not just those for 1801-1819, but also some of the other periods). It appears that someone has taken the listings in the "Chronological Table of the Statutes" and appended the word "Act" and the year after each item given. However, not all Acts (especially earlier ones) have ever been given a formal short title, and I believe that in these cases the Chronological Table merely gives a brief description. I believe that some of those descriptions have unfortunately been blindly turned into short titles here that will only ever exist in this list.
It's a bit difficult to prove that an Act doesn't have a short title, of course, but quite a number of the "short titles" listed appear rather unlikely, and I think it downright improbable that (to use an extreme example) fourteen separate Acts within the same session would all be given the same name by subsequent legislation ("Taxation Act 1801").
Silverhelm 16:25, 11 December 2006 (UTC).
I suppose someone could go through the statute books and add the long titles to the dodgy ones. My local reference library has most of them for the nineteenth century; if their titles are indexed, I could photocopy them and slowly add them. The chance of most of these acts ever getting an article of their own is remote, though. Also, seeing as a lot of these act titles are fictional, would it not be better (logical) to arrange them in chapter order? Lozleader 10:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Year | Session | Chapter | Title/description |
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1868 | 31 & 32 Vict. | c. 33 | Cotton Statistics Act 1868 |
I don't think that this is just a problem of missing short titles. The list features:
- which should, from a quick Google seach, be:
Is there any reason for me not just leaping in and fixing this if it's obvious? Cutler 10:21, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Okay, following on from the above discussion, I've put together a draft reformat at User:Silverhelm/Playpen/List of Acts of Parliament, using the current list for 1707-19. The main changes are as follows:
Clearly that third item is relatively subjective. I erred on the side of caution, but broadly speaking I've taken any of the names that appeared more than once in a year (eg "National Debt Act", "Taxation Act", etc.) to be a strong indicator of an incorrect short title, and likewise for those with a colon, or with a place identifier separated by a comma. A few others "just felt wrong" so I stripped them down as well. Other changes of possible interest are:
About the only thing I haven't done is shuffled the Acts into strict chronological order; I've left them in the current sequence so that it's easier to compare the "before" and "after". At the moment it's my intention to change the list to a strictly chronological one when putting it up "live".
I've also left the introductory text unchanged for now.
Finally, I've put a possible new article name at the top of the page. The reason for the suggested changes should be self-apparent.
I think that's everything...!
Silverhelm
09:03, 14 December 2006 (UTC).
Good work. Do you think that years with more than one session should be in the same table? Concerning the short titles, I'm not sure that they are that dubious, they may in fact be, as you say, the entry from the chronological table of statutes with the word Act and the year appended, but it's reasonbly descriptive. The fact there are several acts of the same name does not surprise me, as even today we have acts named Appropriation Act 2005, Appropriation (No. 2) Act 2005 and Appropriation (No. 3) Act 2005. On the other hand, it isn't unreasonable to unlink them because they are highly unlikely to ever be written about, highly probably repealed, possibly not particularly significant to the modern reader. And they can always be relinked if necessary. As to order, I mainly stuck to the way things had been done previously. I suppose that alphabetical makes it easier for the reader, but chronological makes it easier for editors to update. I also agree with the proposed new title. Kurando | ^_^ 11:58, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Okay, here's my proposed strategy (this is in part a summary of the rather lengthy text above):
Phase 1 (as per my draft reformat)
Only when Phase 1 has been completed for every one of the lists will Phase 2 be started.
Phase 2 (as per my draft reformat) Rename lists to avoid redundancy of word "Parliament" and to distinguish between "Great Britain" and "United Kingdom".
Only when Phase 2 has been completed for every one of the lists will Phase 3 be started.
Phase 3 Create parallel alphabetical lists (exact details to be decided).
Only when Phase 3 has been completed will Phase 4 be started.
Phase 4 Convert the original lists to strict chronological ordering.
Phase 5 Split original lists further, to reduce size. As part of this process, I'd suggest that the current English list for the period up to 1603 is split in two (mediaeval and Tudor), with the mediaeval list then being merged with (or into) Kurando's list of English statutes; this split would reflect the change in nature of the documents themselves (from statutes in the older sense, to Acts of Parliament as we use the term today).
Parallel to the above is the question of verification. Having thought a little more about this point, it seems to me that the nature of the source for each and every short title should be given. Clearly it would be impractical to use the standard <ref></ref> system for so many individual items, so I'd suggest using a colour-coding scheme based on the following categories:
A small number of Acts seem to have the format "[subject] Act (Ireland) [year]". Modern practice reserves this format for pre-union legislation, and even in the nineteenth century these post-union Acts were also being referred to in the now more familiar format of "[subject] (Ireland) Act [year]". Possibly these should only be considered verifiable against the original enactment of their short title, with perhaps the other form being given as "(also known as ...)". Otherwise there's too much likelihood of problems due to contradictory information.
Silverhelm 19:17, 18 December 2006 (UTC).
I've now started on the Phase 1 reformatting for 1801-1819. Silverhelm 19:17, 18 December 2006 (UTC).
Sorry, I only heard of this discussion when a note of it was posted on another list.
List of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, 1760–1779< /info/en/?search=List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_Great_Britain,_1760%E2%80%931779#8_Geo._3> This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1760–1779.For Acts passed up until 1707 see List of Acts of the Parliament of England and List of Acts of the Parliament of Scotland.See also the List of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland to 1700 and the List of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, 1701–1800.. For Acts passed from 1801 onwards see List of ...
Will the person who made the entry in the above list of repealed Acts stating that the Coventry Canal Act 1768 has been repealed please explain how he or she arrived at this conclusion?
The Coventry Canal Act 1768 is still listed in the Chronological Table of the Statutes published by the Stationery Office as being valid and in force today, save only for two Acts of 1819 and 1881 that repealed the Act of 1768 in part only.
It would appear that a mistaken entry has been made here.
5.150.66.18 ( talk) 15:56, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
The following twenty year lists have been split up into annual lists:
(@ James500: I'm tagging you as I thought you might be interested in this/able to assist.)
I'm conscious of the fact that before the 1890s there are plenty of Acts which have been retrospectively given short titles. I thought it would be a good idea to compile a list of Acts which grant them, as there are a few, and no doubt some which I don't know of. Section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978 states that "[a]n Act may continue to be cited by the short title authorised by any enactment notwithstanding the repeal of that enactment", so it doesn't matter whether they're still in force or not.
I would also say that where an Act is conferred a short title by an Act other than itself, the list entry should contain a citation.
There are a large number of miscellaneous Acts that confer a small number of short titles to earlier, related Acts. These provisions seem to have been consolidated in the 1896 Act, but I'm unsure if all of them have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theknightwho ( talk • contribs) 01:08, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
The Short Titles Act 1962, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007, the Statute Law Revision Act 2009 and the Statute Law Revision Act 2012 are missing from the list above. They confer short titles on Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and of the pre-union Parliaments of Great Britain, England and Ireland. James500 ( talk) 18:41, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
These are trickier. I'm unsure how to go about compiling a list of these, as while I'm sure there are many, they're unlikely to be listed anywhere. I also think consideration needs to be given as to how these are distinguished on the list, as the big difference is that these can't be used to formally cite the Act.
Theknightwho ( talk) 01:08, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
"Mr Canning's Act" (1828) relates to the importation of corn: [1]. It is not chapter 28. James500 ( talk) 09:16, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
There is one reference to "Fever Hospital (Ireland) Act" [2] which seems to be the same as the "Fever Hospitals (Ireland) Act" [3], which seems to be a name for both the Act of 1834 and the Act of 58 Geo 3 [4]. James500 ( talk) 23:21, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
The short titles from the Short Titles Act 1896 are now done. James500 ( talk) 02:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I saw a reference to this act at Criminal Law Ace 1977 but could not find it on this page. Does it have another name? Thehalfone 20:39, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
This article is in the process of being WP:SPLIT into annual lists. Its size before the first split was 182kB. Once completed and fully referenced, it would probably have become more than three times that size. James500 ( talk) 18:39, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
The article currently lists "Observance of November 5, May 29, etc. Act 1859 c. 2". Searching for this finds very little that doesn't relate to wikipedia (there is a Project Gutenberg link but it has nothing). Another article I mentions Anniversary Days Observance Act which seems to be the same act (at least it does what I assume Observance of November 5, May 29, etc. Act 1859 would do). Searching for this is more productive e.g. [14] [15] [16]. I see some discussion of short titles in the above linked discussion from 2006. I know next to nothing about naming of UK legislation even now, let alone in 1859, so I don't have any clue if the Anniversary Days Observance Act is the short title, or the correct title (perhaps the earlier title was abandoned) or what, but perhaps someone who knows more or can find better sources can help resolve this confusion. Nil Einne ( talk) 14:17, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
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Short titles conferred by public general Acts on themselves for 1851 to 1859 are done. They need to be done for 1845 to 1850. James500 ( talk) 12:22, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
Talk:List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1860–1879#To do has a list of public general Acts passed between 1860 and 1879 that confer short titles on pre-1860 Acts (excluding Acts of 1860 to 1879 already exhaustively cited in our lists of pre-1860 Acts or in the blue linked articles). That list is not complete for Acts passed from 1880 onwards, or for local and personal Acts, though it does include some of them. James500 ( talk) 15:30, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Some of these Acts have popular names derived from the short title of the Bill for the Act (Bills had short titles before Acts did). The short title of the Bill (minus the word "Bill") is typically included in the page header of the annual volumes. It will be necessary to search for these, replacing the word "Bill" with the word "Act" and, where possible, adding the year. James500 ( talk) 21:21, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Header inserted to avoid breaking up the "to do" list. James500 ( talk) 15:19, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
I am going to remove the entry " Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1925". As far as I can see, the short title of chapter 49 is "The Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925", which is already listed. When I looked in the annual volumes for 1925, I could not find another Act with that short title. The following searches appear to indicate that this expression refers to chapter 49:
I have now redirected that page to the correct article. James500 ( talk) 09:35, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
The Gaol Fees Abolition Act 1815 is sometimes mispelled Goal Fees Abolition Act 1815: [17]. James500 ( talk) 01:37, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
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Why is act capitalized when not used as part of the title of an act in these titles and in the text?
Another question, why is it "acts of the Parliament" rather than "acts of Parliament"? Together, should the title of this article and the related articles be List of acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom?
I'm not proposing a change yet, but looking to see if there's something I don't know. In a legal context, act may be capitalized, but that is not Wikipedia's style. I also know that as an American, there's a lot I don't know about the UK. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 19:28, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 10:52, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
– Per the rules outlined in WP:LOWERCASE, MOS:CAP, and WP:NCCAPS; the last of which states: Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name. "Parliament of Foo" is exempt because it's a proper name, but "acts" and "measures" are common nouns and have no compelling reason to be capitalized. Moving these articles would make them consistent with their American counterparts (e.g. List of acts of the 112th United States Congress). If consensus is reached here, eventually all child articles (e.g. List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1958) would also be changed accordingly. Woko Sapien ( talk) 17:42, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
a law or formal decision made by a parliament or other group of people who make the laws for their country:
an Act of Parliament
detailed definition of the term is problematic and, to an extent, governed by convention. This forms part of my argument, that an Act of Parliament could be considered a proper noun by convention in some English variants, such as British English, but not in others, such as American English (not that American English every really gets to use the phrase in the domestic sense, but there we go).
Wikipedia does not capitalize something unless it is consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources. I have produced many sources, several of which are certainly independent (though I'm not entirely sure what would qualify as independent in this case; in the UK legislation as the Crown gives assent, it's probably owned by the British monarch, and the same for Austalia and Canada in fact), and all of which are reliable, that capitalise the word 'Acts' in the same context at these article titles. As far as I can see, those opposing have so far produced no sources that support their position. You are absolutely free to do so.
detailed definition of the term is problematic and, to an extent, governed by convention, and I'm aware that Wikipedia is not a reliable source ;). It seems to be convention when saying 'Act of Parliament' in at least some countries, that it is considered a proper noun phrase. To go against this seems like WP:SYNTH to me. I can't really comment on the American English usage; I don't believe that there is any entity in the US known as a 'Parliament'. Just to add another English variant here's one from Canada. Maybe therefore it's possible to extend the convention to all 'Parliamentary' systems based on common law, but that might be a stretch. I think WP:RETAIN therefore applies to the list of articles presented in this move request, and each needs to be considered on its merits.
Wikipedia does not capitalize something unless it is consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources. So according to the policy sources are NOT irrelevant. I'm stopping now because this is becoming irksome. To whomever closes this, please remember
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Is there any reasons why the years 1914, 1916 and 1918 are duplicated in the article? If there is, then the section headings need to be made clearer to point out the differences between them. If not, then the sections need to be merged to remove the duplicated entries they contain. Can anyone see any reason to retain them? Road Wizard 20:12, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
doesn't appear to be included in the list. a reference to it can be found here. Doldrums 17:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Please see the talk page at Talk:List of Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament, 1801-1819 for current discussion of possible changes to these lists. Silverhelm 09:08, 14 December 2006 (UTC).
would it make sense to split off the Great Britain legislation to the previous list? It very nearly aligns with a century break, so would be handy. Morwen - Talk 12:41, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm concerned about the accuracy of the short title given for a number of these Acts (not just those for 1801-1819, but also some of the other periods). It appears that someone has taken the listings in the "Chronological Table of the Statutes" and appended the word "Act" and the year after each item given. However, not all Acts (especially earlier ones) have ever been given a formal short title, and I believe that in these cases the Chronological Table merely gives a brief description. I believe that some of those descriptions have unfortunately been blindly turned into short titles here that will only ever exist in this list.
It's a bit difficult to prove that an Act doesn't have a short title, of course, but quite a number of the "short titles" listed appear rather unlikely, and I think it downright improbable that (to use an extreme example) fourteen separate Acts within the same session would all be given the same name by subsequent legislation ("Taxation Act 1801").
Silverhelm 16:25, 11 December 2006 (UTC).
I suppose someone could go through the statute books and add the long titles to the dodgy ones. My local reference library has most of them for the nineteenth century; if their titles are indexed, I could photocopy them and slowly add them. The chance of most of these acts ever getting an article of their own is remote, though. Also, seeing as a lot of these act titles are fictional, would it not be better (logical) to arrange them in chapter order? Lozleader 10:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Year | Session | Chapter | Title/description |
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1868 | 31 & 32 Vict. | c. 33 | Cotton Statistics Act 1868 |
I don't think that this is just a problem of missing short titles. The list features:
- which should, from a quick Google seach, be:
Is there any reason for me not just leaping in and fixing this if it's obvious? Cutler 10:21, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Okay, following on from the above discussion, I've put together a draft reformat at User:Silverhelm/Playpen/List of Acts of Parliament, using the current list for 1707-19. The main changes are as follows:
Clearly that third item is relatively subjective. I erred on the side of caution, but broadly speaking I've taken any of the names that appeared more than once in a year (eg "National Debt Act", "Taxation Act", etc.) to be a strong indicator of an incorrect short title, and likewise for those with a colon, or with a place identifier separated by a comma. A few others "just felt wrong" so I stripped them down as well. Other changes of possible interest are:
About the only thing I haven't done is shuffled the Acts into strict chronological order; I've left them in the current sequence so that it's easier to compare the "before" and "after". At the moment it's my intention to change the list to a strictly chronological one when putting it up "live".
I've also left the introductory text unchanged for now.
Finally, I've put a possible new article name at the top of the page. The reason for the suggested changes should be self-apparent.
I think that's everything...!
Silverhelm
09:03, 14 December 2006 (UTC).
Good work. Do you think that years with more than one session should be in the same table? Concerning the short titles, I'm not sure that they are that dubious, they may in fact be, as you say, the entry from the chronological table of statutes with the word Act and the year appended, but it's reasonbly descriptive. The fact there are several acts of the same name does not surprise me, as even today we have acts named Appropriation Act 2005, Appropriation (No. 2) Act 2005 and Appropriation (No. 3) Act 2005. On the other hand, it isn't unreasonable to unlink them because they are highly unlikely to ever be written about, highly probably repealed, possibly not particularly significant to the modern reader. And they can always be relinked if necessary. As to order, I mainly stuck to the way things had been done previously. I suppose that alphabetical makes it easier for the reader, but chronological makes it easier for editors to update. I also agree with the proposed new title. Kurando | ^_^ 11:58, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Okay, here's my proposed strategy (this is in part a summary of the rather lengthy text above):
Phase 1 (as per my draft reformat)
Only when Phase 1 has been completed for every one of the lists will Phase 2 be started.
Phase 2 (as per my draft reformat) Rename lists to avoid redundancy of word "Parliament" and to distinguish between "Great Britain" and "United Kingdom".
Only when Phase 2 has been completed for every one of the lists will Phase 3 be started.
Phase 3 Create parallel alphabetical lists (exact details to be decided).
Only when Phase 3 has been completed will Phase 4 be started.
Phase 4 Convert the original lists to strict chronological ordering.
Phase 5 Split original lists further, to reduce size. As part of this process, I'd suggest that the current English list for the period up to 1603 is split in two (mediaeval and Tudor), with the mediaeval list then being merged with (or into) Kurando's list of English statutes; this split would reflect the change in nature of the documents themselves (from statutes in the older sense, to Acts of Parliament as we use the term today).
Parallel to the above is the question of verification. Having thought a little more about this point, it seems to me that the nature of the source for each and every short title should be given. Clearly it would be impractical to use the standard <ref></ref> system for so many individual items, so I'd suggest using a colour-coding scheme based on the following categories:
A small number of Acts seem to have the format "[subject] Act (Ireland) [year]". Modern practice reserves this format for pre-union legislation, and even in the nineteenth century these post-union Acts were also being referred to in the now more familiar format of "[subject] (Ireland) Act [year]". Possibly these should only be considered verifiable against the original enactment of their short title, with perhaps the other form being given as "(also known as ...)". Otherwise there's too much likelihood of problems due to contradictory information.
Silverhelm 19:17, 18 December 2006 (UTC).
I've now started on the Phase 1 reformatting for 1801-1819. Silverhelm 19:17, 18 December 2006 (UTC).
Sorry, I only heard of this discussion when a note of it was posted on another list.
List of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, 1760–1779< /info/en/?search=List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_Great_Britain,_1760%E2%80%931779#8_Geo._3> This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1760–1779.For Acts passed up until 1707 see List of Acts of the Parliament of England and List of Acts of the Parliament of Scotland.See also the List of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland to 1700 and the List of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, 1701–1800.. For Acts passed from 1801 onwards see List of ...
Will the person who made the entry in the above list of repealed Acts stating that the Coventry Canal Act 1768 has been repealed please explain how he or she arrived at this conclusion?
The Coventry Canal Act 1768 is still listed in the Chronological Table of the Statutes published by the Stationery Office as being valid and in force today, save only for two Acts of 1819 and 1881 that repealed the Act of 1768 in part only.
It would appear that a mistaken entry has been made here.
5.150.66.18 ( talk) 15:56, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
The following twenty year lists have been split up into annual lists:
(@ James500: I'm tagging you as I thought you might be interested in this/able to assist.)
I'm conscious of the fact that before the 1890s there are plenty of Acts which have been retrospectively given short titles. I thought it would be a good idea to compile a list of Acts which grant them, as there are a few, and no doubt some which I don't know of. Section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978 states that "[a]n Act may continue to be cited by the short title authorised by any enactment notwithstanding the repeal of that enactment", so it doesn't matter whether they're still in force or not.
I would also say that where an Act is conferred a short title by an Act other than itself, the list entry should contain a citation.
There are a large number of miscellaneous Acts that confer a small number of short titles to earlier, related Acts. These provisions seem to have been consolidated in the 1896 Act, but I'm unsure if all of them have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theknightwho ( talk • contribs) 01:08, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
The Short Titles Act 1962, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007, the Statute Law Revision Act 2009 and the Statute Law Revision Act 2012 are missing from the list above. They confer short titles on Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and of the pre-union Parliaments of Great Britain, England and Ireland. James500 ( talk) 18:41, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
These are trickier. I'm unsure how to go about compiling a list of these, as while I'm sure there are many, they're unlikely to be listed anywhere. I also think consideration needs to be given as to how these are distinguished on the list, as the big difference is that these can't be used to formally cite the Act.
Theknightwho ( talk) 01:08, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
"Mr Canning's Act" (1828) relates to the importation of corn: [1]. It is not chapter 28. James500 ( talk) 09:16, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
There is one reference to "Fever Hospital (Ireland) Act" [2] which seems to be the same as the "Fever Hospitals (Ireland) Act" [3], which seems to be a name for both the Act of 1834 and the Act of 58 Geo 3 [4]. James500 ( talk) 23:21, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
The short titles from the Short Titles Act 1896 are now done. James500 ( talk) 02:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I saw a reference to this act at Criminal Law Ace 1977 but could not find it on this page. Does it have another name? Thehalfone 20:39, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
This article is in the process of being WP:SPLIT into annual lists. Its size before the first split was 182kB. Once completed and fully referenced, it would probably have become more than three times that size. James500 ( talk) 18:39, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
The article currently lists "Observance of November 5, May 29, etc. Act 1859 c. 2". Searching for this finds very little that doesn't relate to wikipedia (there is a Project Gutenberg link but it has nothing). Another article I mentions Anniversary Days Observance Act which seems to be the same act (at least it does what I assume Observance of November 5, May 29, etc. Act 1859 would do). Searching for this is more productive e.g. [14] [15] [16]. I see some discussion of short titles in the above linked discussion from 2006. I know next to nothing about naming of UK legislation even now, let alone in 1859, so I don't have any clue if the Anniversary Days Observance Act is the short title, or the correct title (perhaps the earlier title was abandoned) or what, but perhaps someone who knows more or can find better sources can help resolve this confusion. Nil Einne ( talk) 14:17, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
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Short titles conferred by public general Acts on themselves for 1851 to 1859 are done. They need to be done for 1845 to 1850. James500 ( talk) 12:22, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
Talk:List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1860–1879#To do has a list of public general Acts passed between 1860 and 1879 that confer short titles on pre-1860 Acts (excluding Acts of 1860 to 1879 already exhaustively cited in our lists of pre-1860 Acts or in the blue linked articles). That list is not complete for Acts passed from 1880 onwards, or for local and personal Acts, though it does include some of them. James500 ( talk) 15:30, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Some of these Acts have popular names derived from the short title of the Bill for the Act (Bills had short titles before Acts did). The short title of the Bill (minus the word "Bill") is typically included in the page header of the annual volumes. It will be necessary to search for these, replacing the word "Bill" with the word "Act" and, where possible, adding the year. James500 ( talk) 21:21, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Header inserted to avoid breaking up the "to do" list. James500 ( talk) 15:19, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
I am going to remove the entry " Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1925". As far as I can see, the short title of chapter 49 is "The Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925", which is already listed. When I looked in the annual volumes for 1925, I could not find another Act with that short title. The following searches appear to indicate that this expression refers to chapter 49:
I have now redirected that page to the correct article. James500 ( talk) 09:35, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
The Gaol Fees Abolition Act 1815 is sometimes mispelled Goal Fees Abolition Act 1815: [17]. James500 ( talk) 01:37, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
Edits made by Mauls ( talk · contribs) today have caused this page to hit WP:TLIMIT problems. This manifests itself in templates showing as links and not transclusions. As I write this, the first of these is at List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1880–1889#1889 (52 & 53 Vict.), and shows as Template:Legislationuk. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 22:23, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
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Why is act capitalized when not used as part of the title of an act in these titles and in the text?
Another question, why is it "acts of the Parliament" rather than "acts of Parliament"? Together, should the title of this article and the related articles be List of acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom?
I'm not proposing a change yet, but looking to see if there's something I don't know. In a legal context, act may be capitalized, but that is not Wikipedia's style. I also know that as an American, there's a lot I don't know about the UK. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 19:28, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 10:52, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
– Per the rules outlined in WP:LOWERCASE, MOS:CAP, and WP:NCCAPS; the last of which states: Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name. "Parliament of Foo" is exempt because it's a proper name, but "acts" and "measures" are common nouns and have no compelling reason to be capitalized. Moving these articles would make them consistent with their American counterparts (e.g. List of acts of the 112th United States Congress). If consensus is reached here, eventually all child articles (e.g. List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1958) would also be changed accordingly. Woko Sapien ( talk) 17:42, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
a law or formal decision made by a parliament or other group of people who make the laws for their country:
an Act of Parliament
detailed definition of the term is problematic and, to an extent, governed by convention. This forms part of my argument, that an Act of Parliament could be considered a proper noun by convention in some English variants, such as British English, but not in others, such as American English (not that American English every really gets to use the phrase in the domestic sense, but there we go).
Wikipedia does not capitalize something unless it is consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources. I have produced many sources, several of which are certainly independent (though I'm not entirely sure what would qualify as independent in this case; in the UK legislation as the Crown gives assent, it's probably owned by the British monarch, and the same for Austalia and Canada in fact), and all of which are reliable, that capitalise the word 'Acts' in the same context at these article titles. As far as I can see, those opposing have so far produced no sources that support their position. You are absolutely free to do so.
detailed definition of the term is problematic and, to an extent, governed by convention, and I'm aware that Wikipedia is not a reliable source ;). It seems to be convention when saying 'Act of Parliament' in at least some countries, that it is considered a proper noun phrase. To go against this seems like WP:SYNTH to me. I can't really comment on the American English usage; I don't believe that there is any entity in the US known as a 'Parliament'. Just to add another English variant here's one from Canada. Maybe therefore it's possible to extend the convention to all 'Parliamentary' systems based on common law, but that might be a stretch. I think WP:RETAIN therefore applies to the list of articles presented in this move request, and each needs to be considered on its merits.
Wikipedia does not capitalize something unless it is consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources. So according to the policy sources are NOT irrelevant. I'm stopping now because this is becoming irksome. To whomever closes this, please remember
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Many of the lists above include sublists which will need to be changed. I could spend some time on this on Sunday. Anybody have a plan of attack? Thanks, SchreiberBike | ⌨ 22:57, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
(?<=[a-z0-9]\)*[,;:]? \(*)A(?=cts?\b) → a
(not tested) to weed out occurrences that are not mid-sentence.
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