The Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998 (c. 43) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It provided reform to the statute law in the areas of administration of justice, ecclesiastical law, education, finance, Hereford and Worcester, inclosure acts, Scottish Local Acts, Slave Trade Acts, as well as other miscellaneous items.
The act implemented recommendations contained in the sixteenth report on statute law revision, by the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.
Paragraph 3 was repealed by section 109(3) of, and Schedule 10 to the Courts Act 2003.
The Inclosure Commissioners Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 53) was entirely repealed.
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was entirely repealed. Despite its repeal, slavery remains illegal because the act only applied to the British Empire, as it was already illegal in Britain itself at the time of its passage due to legal precedents set by court cases like Somerset v Stewart and Knight v Wedderburn, a state of law that carried over into the United Kingdom. Sections of the Slave Trade Act 1824, Slave Trade Act 1843, and Slave Trade Act 1873 that prohibit and criminalize slavery also remain in force. More recently, the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporated Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits holding people as slaves, into British law; additionally, the Modern Slavery Act 2015 also independently provides for the penalization and prosecution of slavery.