The Continuance, etc. of Laws Act 1592 (35 Eliz. 1. c. 7) was an act of the Parliament of England that revived, continued, amended and repealed various older acts.
Section 4 of the act decreased the penalty under section 12 of the Maintenance of the Navy Act 1562 (5 Eliz. 1. c. 5) for eating flesh on Flesh Days to 20 shillings or a month imprisonment.
Section 5 of the act permitted exportation of corn under section 17 of the Maintenance of the Navy Act 1562 (5 Eliz. 1. c. 5) when wheat does not exceed 20 shillings per quarter and imposed a customs duty of 2 shillings per quarter.
Section 8 of the act provided that anyone with land within five miles of Oxford must pay 4 pence per year towards the repair of bridges under the Road Repairs (Oxford) Act 1575 (18 Eliz. 1. c. 20).
Section 9 of the act provided that land may be given to the use of the por under the Poor Act 1575 (18 Eliz. 1. c. 3).
Section 10 of the act exempted certain ships from tonnage duty for Dover Haven under the Dover Harbour Act 1580 (23 Eliz. 1. c. 6) and Dover Harbour Act 1588 (31 Eliz. 1. c. 13).
Section 13 of the act provided that the nothing in the act would affect any existing license granted by the monarch for transporting corn at lower customs that provided under the act.
Section 14 of the act provided that export of corn may be prohibited by royal proclamation.
Section 1 of the act continued 26 enactments until the end of the next session of parliament.
Section 7 of the act revived punishment of vagabonds by whipping under section 2 of the Vagabonds Act 1530 (22 Hen. 8).
Section 11 of the act revived and continued the Lyme Regis Pier Act 1584 (27 Eliz. 1) until the end of the next session of parliament.
Section 12 of the act made the Cloths Act 1584 (27 Eliz. 1. c. 17) perpetual.
Section 2 of the act repealed so much of the Tillage Act 1562 (5 Eliz. 1. c. 2) as "concern the earing, ploughing, using and keeping in tillage for ever, of such lands or grounds, or so much in quantity, as before the making of that statute had been eared or ploughed, and put in tillage in any one year, and so kept in tillage by the space of four years, at any time sithence the feast of St. George the martyr in the twentieth year of King Henry the Eighth".
Section 3 of the act repealed so much of the as "heretofore at any time was repealed, and all and every such branch and branches of the said statute as concern the sowing of flax or hemp, or the reviving of one statute concerning sowing of flax or hemp, made and provided in the parliament holden in the four and twentieth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth".
Section 6 of the act repealed so much of the Vagabonds Act 1572 (14 Eliz. 1. c. 5) and the Usury Act 1571 (18 Eliz. 1. c. 3) as "concerneth the punishment of vagabonds, by gaoling, boring through the ear, and death in the second degree, and every matter, clause, article and provision in the said statute contained concerning the same, shall so far forth only as they concern the same, from henceforth be repealed, cease and be utterly void; any thing in this statute contained to the contrary notwithstanding".
The whole act was continued until the end of the next session of parliament by the Continuance, etc. of Laws Act 1597 (39 Eliz. 1. c. 18), except for provisions relating to the Importation Act 1562 (5 Eliz. 1. c. 7), the Maintenance of the Navy Act 1562 (5 Eliz. 1. c. 5), the Tillage Act 1562 (5 Eliz. 1. c. 2), the Caps Act 1571 (13 Eliz. 1. c. 19), the Vagabonds Act 1572 (14 Eliz. 1. c. 5), the Poor Act 1575 (18 Eliz. 1. c. 3), the Dover Harbour Act 1580 (23 Eliz. 1. c. 6) and the Disabled Soldiers Act 1592 (35 Eliz. 1. c. 4).
The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 125).