“ This schedule is to be read as referring to the Revised Edition of the statutes prepared under the direction of the Statute Law Committee in all cases of statutes included in that edition ; and as referring, in the case of all Statutes not so included and passed before the reign of George the First, to the edition prepared under the direction of the Record Commission. ”

“ An Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing superfluous expressions of enactment, and enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary. [27th March 1888.]
WHEREAS in numerous statutes the expression "be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid," or similar expressions of enactment, are frequently repeated, and it is expedient, with a view to the revision of the Statute Law, and particularly to the improvement of the Revised Edition of the Statutes, to repeal these expressions, which are superfluous ”