Gunpowder Act 1772
{{Short description|Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom}}
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{{Infobox UK legislation
| short_title = Gunpowder Act 1772
| type = Act
| parliament = Parliament of Great Britain
| long_title = An Act to regulate the Making, Keeping, and Carriage of Gunpowder within Great Britain, and to repeal the Laws heretofore made for any of those Purposes.
| year = 1772
| citation = 12 Geo. 3. c. 61
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| territorial_extent = Great Britain
| royal_assent = 3 June 1772
| commencement = 1 July 1772{{efn|Section 31.}}
| repeal_date = 31 August 1861
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|replaces=Keeping, etc., of Gunpowder Act 1771| related_legislation ={{ubli|Keeping, etc., of Gunpowder Act 1771|Gunpowder Act 1860|Explosives Act 1875}}
| repealing_legislation = Gunpowder Act 1860
| status = Repealed
| original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D78uAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA166
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The Gunpowder Act 1772 (12 Geo. 3. c. 61) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that consolidated all acts relating to the making, keeping and transport of gunpowder.
Background
In 1771, the Keeping, etc., of Gunpowder Act 1771 (11 Geo. 3. c. 35) was passed, which consolidated all laws relating to the keeping and transport of gunpowder.{{Cite book |last=Britain |first=Great |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D78uAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA153 |title=The Statutes at Large: From the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, Anno 1761 [continued to 1807] |date=1771 |publisher=J. Bentham |volume=29 |pages=153–158 |language=en}}
Provisions
Section 31 of the act repealed the Keeping, etc., of Gunpowder Act 1771 (11 Geo. 3 c. 35), as well as "all other statutes relating to the keeping and carriage of gunpowder", effective from 1 July 1772.{{Cite book |last=Britain |first=Great |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D78uAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA166 |title=The Statutes at Large: From the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, Anno 1761 [continued to 1807] |date=1771 |publisher=J. Bentham |language=en |volume=29 |pages=166–176}}
Legacy
The Select Committee on Temporary Laws described this act as a Consolidation Act.{{Cite book |last=Commons |first=Great Britain Parliament House of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xpFIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA34 |title=Reports from Committees of the House of Commons which Have Been Printed by Order of the House: And are Not Inserted in the Journals [1715-1801 |date=1803 |volume=14 |pages=34–118 |language=en}}
The act was repealed by the Gunpowder Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 139), except as to any offence or penalty incurred, which would remain as if the act had not been repealed.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGFFAAAAcAAJ&pg=1261 |title=A Collection of the Public General Statutes: 1860 |year=1860 |pages=1261–1279 |language=en}}
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