An Index of all the Statutes, Proclamations and Privy Council Orders on this site, by main subject. Currently under construction.
Africa
- 1764: 4 George 3 c.20: Fort of Senegal
- 1819: 59 George 3 c.97: Slave Trade Offences in Africa
- 1853: 16 & 17 Victoria c.86: Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone
Aliens and Naturalization
- 1708: 7 Anne c.5: Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act
- 1711: 10 Anne c.9: Repeal of the Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act
- 1731: 4 George 2 c.21: British Nationality Act
- 1774: 14 George 3 c.84: Bills of Naturalization
- 1784: 24 George 3 c.35: Ordination of Aliens
- 1800: 41 George 3 (G.B.) c.24: Continuing Aliens Acts
- 1819: 59 George 3 c.8: Continuing Aliens Act
- 1905: 5 Edward 7 c.13: The Aliens Act
America
- 1732: 5 George 2 c.7: Recovery of American Debts
- 1764: 4 George 3 c.34: The American Currency Act
- Proclamation: 1763: American Territories
- 1766: 6 George 3 c.12: American Colonies Act
- 1766: 7 George 3 c.46: The Townshend Revenue Act
- 1770: 10 George 3 c.35: New York Paper Money
- 1774: 14 George 3 c.19: Boston Port Act
- 1774: 14 George 3 c.45: Massachusetts Government Act
- Proclamation: 1775: Proclamation of Rebellion
- 1777: 17 George 3 c.9: High Treason in America
- 1782: 22 George 3 c.46: American Colonies Peace Act
- 1787: 27 George 3 c.7: U.S. Trade
- 1790: 30 George 3 c.27: Encouraging Colonial Settlers in the Americas and West Indies
- 1808: 48 George 3 c.85: Trade with the United States
Animals
- 1535: 27 Henry 8 c. 6: For the increase of horses
- 1822: 3 George 4 c.71: Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act
- 1835: 5 & 6 William 4 c.59: Cruelty to Animals Act
- 1837: 1 Victoria c.66: Cruelty to Animals (Ireland)
- 1849: 12 & 13 Victoria c.92: Cruelty to Animals Act
- 1850: 13 & 14 Victoria c.59: Cruelty to Animals (Scotland)
- 1854: 17 & 18 Victoria c.60: Amending Cruelty to Animals Act
- 1876: 39 & 40 Victoria c.77: Cruelty to Animals Act
- 1900: 63 & 64 Victoria c.33: Wild Animals in Captivity Protection Act
Armed Forces
- 1782: 22 George 3 c.6: Militia Act
- 1857: 20 Victoria c.1: Amending time of Service in the Marines
- 1905: 5 Edward 7 c.2: Army (Annual) Act
- 1914: 5 George 5 c.16: Royal Marines Act
- 1916: 5 & 6 George 5 c.104. Military Service Act
Australia
Bankruptcy
- 1542: 34 & 35 Henry 8 c.4: Statute of Bankrupts
- 1705: 4 Anne c.17: Frauds frequently committed by bankrupts
- 1705: 6 Anne c.22: Explaining the Bankrupts Frauds Act
- 1711: 10 Anne c.15: Repealing the description of a bankrupt
- 1720: 7 George 1 Session 1 c.31: Explaining bankrupts acts
- 1746: 19 George 2, c.32: Amending the Bankrupts laws
- 1797: 37 George 3 c. 124: Making Fraudulent Bankrupts Act perpetual
British Museum
- 1753: 26 George 2 c.22: Establishing the British Museum
- 1766: 7 George 3 c. 18: Enabling the British Museum to exchange, sell or dispose of, duplicates
- 1805: 45 George 3 c.127: Vesting the Townleian Collection in the British Museum
- 1807: 47 George 3 sess. 2 c.36: Enabling the British Museum to exchange, sell or dispose of parts of the collections
- 1824: 5 George 4 c.60: Knight’s Bequest to the British Museum
- 1902: 2 Edward 7 c.12: British Museum Act
Canada
- 1699: 10 & 11 William 3 c.25: To Encourage the Trade to Newfoundland
- 1774: 14 George 3 c.83: The Quebec Act
- 1774: 14 George 3 c. 88: Quebec Revenue Act
- 1775: 15 George 3 c.40: Amending Quebec Revenue Act
- 1916: 6 & 7 George 5 c.19: Amending the British North America Act
Caribbean
- 1790: 30 George 3 c.27: Encouraging Colonial Settlers in the Americas and West Indies
- 1812: 53 George 3 c.3: Jamaica and Saint Domingo Amendment
- 1812: 53 George 3 c.12: West Indies Imports
- 1838: 1 & 2 Victoria c.67: Prisons in the West Indies.
Children
- 1623: 21 James 1 c.27: To prevent the destroying and murthering of bastard children
- 1733: 6 George 2 c.31: Bastardy Act
- 1839: 2 & 3 Victoria c.54: Custody of Infants
Christianity, Churches and Religion
- 1542: 33 Henry 8 c.31: Bishoprics of Chester and Man
- 1554: 1 & 2 Philip & Mary c.6: Revival of the Heresy Acts
- 1677: 29 Charles 2 c.9: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act
- 1778: 18 George 3 c.60: Catholic Relief Act
- 1781: 21 George 3 c.49: Sunday Observance Act
- 1784: 24 George 3 c.35: Ordination of Aliens
- 1786: 26 George 3 c.84: Consecration of Bishops Abroad
- 1787: 27 George 3 c.44: Frivolous suits in Ecclesiastical Courts
- 1811: 51 George 3 c.115: Gifts for Churches
- 1813: 53 George 3 c.160: Doctrine of the Trinity
- 1823: 4 George 4 c.52: Burial of Suicides
- 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.39: Ecclesiastical Patronage
Coffee Houses
- Proclamation: 1675: Suppression of Coffee Houses
- Proclamation: 1675/6: Additional Proclamation concerning Coffee Houses
Copyright and Patents
- 1710: 8 Anne c.19 / c.21: The Statute of Anne
- 1734: 7 George 2 c.24: The Histories of Thuanus
- 1735: 8 George 2 c.13: Engraving Copyright Act
- 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.27: Protection of Inventions
- 1906: 6 Edward 7 c.36: Musical Copyright Act
- 1916: 6 & 7 George 5 c.51: Anzac (Restriction on Trade Use of Word)
- Statutory Order: 1924: Copyright Act (Extension to Palestine) Order
Debt and Debtors
- 1379: 2 Richard 2 c. 3: Debtors’ fraudulent deeds
- 1701: 1 Anne s.1 c.19: An act for the relief of poor prisoners for debt
- 1704: 2 & 3 Anne c.16: An act for the discharge of Insolvent debtors
- 1712: 10 Anne c.20: An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors
- 1719: 6 George 1 c.22: Relief of Insolvent Debtors
- 1724: 11 George 1 c.21: An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors
- 1729: 2 George 2 c.20: Insolvent Debtors Relief Act
- 1729: 2 George 2 c.22: For the relief of imprisoned debtors
- 1730: 3 George 2 c.27: Explanation of debtors relief act
- 1735: 8 George 2 c.24: Amending the 1729 Relief of Debtors Act
- 1736: 10 George 2 c.26: An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors
- 1738: 11 George 2 c.9: Extending the 1737 Relief Act
- 1742: 16 George 2 c.17: Relief of Insolvent Debtors
- 1747: 21 George 2 c.31: Relief of Insolvent Debtors
- 1748: 21 George 2 c.33: Continuing laws for the relief of debtors
- 1751: 24 George 2 c.42: Amending the Westminster Small Debts Act
- 1756: 29 George 2 c.18: To obviate a doubt concerning the relief of insolvent debtors
- 1760: 1 George 3 c.17: Relief of Insolvent Debtors
- 1761: 2 George 3 c.2: Repeal of compulsion clauses in Relief Act
- 1764: 4 George 3 c.41: Kirby, Westmorland, Small Debts Act
- 1785: 25 George 3 c.35: Crown Debtors Act
- 1786: 26 George 3 c.38: Time of Imprisonment of Debtors
- 1786: 26 George 3 c.44: Relief of imprisoned debtors
- 1793: 33 George 3 c.5: Renewing the Lords Act of 1758
- 1799: 39 George 3 c.50: Making the ‘Lords Act’ perpetual
- 1801: 41 George 3 c.64: Relief of imprisoned debtors
- 1805: 45 George 3 c.3: Remedying omissions in the insolvents relief act of 1804
- 1808: 48 George 3 c.123: Discharge of Debtors
- 1809: 49 George 3 c.6: Relief of Court Debtors
- 1812: 52 George 3 c. 13: Amending the 1811 Insolvent Debtors Relief Act
- 1812: 52 George 3 c.160: Parochial Relief for Debtor Prisoners
- 1813: 53 George 3 c.102: Establishing the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors
- 1813: 54 George 3 c.23: Amending the Insolvent Debtors Relief Act
- 1816: 56 George 3 c.102: Further powers to the debtors’ court
- 1869: 32 & 33 Victoria c.62: Debtors Act
- 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.76: Absconding Debtors
Duelling
Elections
- 1689: 2 William & Mary s.2, c.7: Election of members for the Cinque ports
- 1735: 8 George 2 c.30: Quartering soldiers during elections
- 1771: 11 George 3 c.55: New Shoreham Election Corruption
- 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.25: Norwich Disenfranchisement
- 1896: 59 & 60 Victoria c.1: Local Government (Elections) Act
Gordon Riots
- Proclamation: 5 June 1780: Gordon Riots
- Proclamation: 7 June 1780: Gordon Riots
- Proclamation: 9 June 1780: Gordon Riots
- 1780: 20 George 3 c.63: Indemnification of suppressors of the Gordon Riots
- 1780: 20 George 3 c.64: Preventing mischiefs after the Gordon Riots
- 1781: 21 George 3 c.1: Extending prevention of mischiefs after the Gordon Riots
Health and Medicine
- 1513: 5 Henry 8 c.6: Relieving Surgeons of service
- 1840: 3 & 4 Victoria c.29: Vaccination Extension Act
- 1841: 4 & 5 Victoria, c.32: Amending the Vaccination Extension Act
Heritage
- 1882: 45 & 46 Victoria c.73: Ancient Monuments Protection Act
- 1900: 63 & 64 Victoria c.34: Ancient Monuments Protection Act
India
- 1786: 26 George 3 c.25: Presidency of Fort William
- 1784: 24 George 3 c.3: East India Company Debts
- 1858: 21 & 22 Victoria c.106: Government of India Act
- 1919: 9 & 10 George 5 c.101: Government of India
Ireland
- Irish Act: 1634: 10 Charles 1 session 2 c.19: Trial of Murders Act
- 1719: 6 George 1 c.5: Irish Dependency Act
- Irish Act: 1737: 11 George 2 c.6: Administration of Justice (Language) Act
- 1760: 33 George 2 c.5: Continuing Imports from Ireland
- 1782: 22 George 3 c.53: Repeal of the Irish Dependency Act
- 1783: 23 George 3 c.28: Irish Appeals Act
- 1810: 50 George 3 c.74: Irish Post Office
- 1821: 1 & 2 George 4 c.17: Repeal of the Irish Witchcraft Act
- 1837: 1 Victoria c.66: Cruelty to Animals (Ireland)
- 1842: 5 & 6 Victoria c.23: Turnpike Acts (Ireland) Act
- 1870: 33 Victoria c.11: Dublin Collector-General of Rates Franchise
- 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.38: Sligo and Cashel Disfranchisement
- 1892: 55 & 56 Victoria c.46: Ancient Monuments Protection (Ireland) Act
- 1896: 59 & 60 Victoria c.5: Poor Law Guardians (Ireland) (Women) Act
- 1903: 3 Edward 7 c.1: St Patrick’s Day Holiday
- 1903: 3 Edward 7 c.2: Light Locomotives (Ireland)
- 1905: 5 Edward 7 c.3: Licensing (Ireland) Act
- 1911: 1 & 2 George 5 c.35: Local Authorities (Ireland) (Qualification of Women) Act
- 1916: 6 & 7 George 5, c.45: Time (Ireland) Act
Jews and Judaism
- 1701: 1 Anne s.1 c.24: Protestant Children of Jewish Parents
- 1753: 26 George 2 c.26: Jewish Naturalization Act
- 1754: 27 George 2 c.1: Repeal of the Jewish Naturalization Act
- 1858: 21 & 22 Victoria c.49: Jewish Relief Act
Law, Courts, and Justices of the Peace
- 1360: 34 Edward 3 c.1: Justices of the Peace
- 1731: 4 George 2 c.26: Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act
- 1732: 5 George 2 c.18: Qualification of Justices of the Peace
- 1732: 5 George 2 c.19: Quarter Sessions Appeals
- 1741: 15 George 2 c.24: Justices Commitment Act
- 1774: 14 George 3 c.39: Administration Of Justice Act
- 1787: 27 George 3 c.43: Affidavits in Chester
- 1792: 32 George 3 c.48: Middlesex Sessions Act
- 1803: 43 George 3 c.141: Justices Protection Act
- 1850: 13 & 14 Victoria c.21: Interpretation Act
Liverpool
London and Middlesex
- 1666: 19 Charles 2 c.2: Fire of London Disputes Act
- 1772: 12 George 3 c.65: Enclosing Hangman’s Acre
- 1790: 30 George 3 c.76: Maintenance of Hans Town, Chelsea
- 1792: 32 George 3 c.48: Middlesex Sessions Act
- 1803: 43 George 3 local act 11: Amending Hans Town, Chelsea Maintenance Act
- 1825: 6 George 4 local act 134: Tothill Fields Improvement Act
- 1852: 15 Victoria c.29: Enclosure of Kennington Common
- 1854: 17 & 18 Victoria c.33: Public Statues (Metropolis) Act
- 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.18: Metropolitan Poor Amendment
- 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.24: Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans)
Machine-breaking
- 1788: 28 George 3 c.55: Protection of Stocking Frames
- 1812: 52 George 3 c.16: The Frame-Breaking Act
- 1813: 54 George 3 c.42: The Frame-Breaking Act
- 1817: 57 George 3 c.126: Punishment of Persons Destroying Stocking or Lace Frames
Madness
- 1731: 4 George 2 c.10: Estates of Lunatics
- 1742: 15 George 2 c.30: Preventing the Marriage of Lunatics
- 1779: 19 George 3 c.15: Continuation of madhouse regulation act
- 1886: 49 & 50 Victoria c.16: Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act
Manchester
Marine Insurance
- 1745: 19 George 2 c.37: Marine Insurance
- 1785: 25 George 3 c.44: Marine Insurance
- 1788: 28 George 3 c.56: Repeal of Marine Insurance Act
Maritime, Navy and Seamen
- 1740: 13 George 2 c.17: Encouragement of seamen
- Proclamation: 1759: For encouraging Seamen
- Privy Council Order: 1760: Encouragement of Seamen
- 1779: 19 George 3, c.14: Foreign Seamen
- 1793: 33 George 3 c.26: Supply of Mariners and Seamen
- 1799: 39 George 3 c.37: Offences on the High Seas
Marriage
- 1696: 7 & 8 William 3 c.35. An act for regulating marriages
- 1742: 15 George 2 c.30: Preventing the Marriage of Lunatics
- 1753: 26 George 2 c.33: Prevention of Clandestine Marriages
- 1781: 21 George 3 c.53: Validating Marriages
- 1823: 4 George 4 c.5: Validating certain Marriages
- 1823: 4 George 4 c.17: Repeal of Provisions concerning Clandestine Marriages
- 1823: 4 George 4 c.91: Validity of Marriages solemnized abroad
- 1907: 7 Edward 7 c.47: Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act
Monarchy
- 1689: 2 William & Mary c.6: Absence of King William Act
- 1711: 10 Anne c. 8: Princess Sophia’s Precedence Act
- 1714: 1 George 1 Session 2 c.4: Explaining the Limitation of the Crown
- 1729: 2 George 2 c.27: The Regency Act
- 1772: 12 George 3 c. 11: Royal Marriages Act
- 1812: 53 George 3 c.14: Regulation of Royal Household during Illness
- 1823: 4 George 4 c.18: Crown Lands Act,/li>
Money
- 1411: 13 Henry 4 c.6: Against Gally half-pence and foreign money
- 1732: 6 George 2 c.26: Broad Coin Act
- 1751: 24 George 2 c.53: The Currency Act
- 1764: 4 George 3 c.34: The American Currency Act
- 1770: 10 George 3 c.35: New York Paper Money
- 1773: 13 George 3 c.57: Amending the American Currency Act
- 1773: 13 George 3 c.71: Preventing the counterfeiting of Gold Coin
- Privy Council Order: 1797: Suspension of cash payments by the Bank of England
- 1797: 37 George 3 c.126: Counterfeiting Coin
- 1812: 53 George 3 c.5: Continuation of Coin and Note Value Act
- 1813: 53 George 3 c.19: Tokens Act Amendment (1)
- 1813: 53 George 3 c.114: Tokens Act Amendment (2)
- 1816: 56 George 3 c.68: Recoinage Act
News and Newspapers
- Proclamation: 1688: Spreading of false news
- 1798: 38 George 3 c. 78: Newspaper Publication Act.
- 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.9: Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act
Parliament
- 1604: 1 James 1 c.13: Privilege of Parliament Act
- 1800: 41 George 3 (G.B.) c.13: Parliamentary Buildings
- 1801: 41 George 3 c.52: House of Commons (Disqualifications) Act
- 1840: 3 & 4 Victoria c.9: Parliamentary Papers Act
- 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.81: Meeting of Parliament
- 1870: 33 Victoria c.1: Parliamentary Costs
- 1911: 1 & 2 George 5 c. 13: Parliament Act
- 1918: 7 & 8 George 5 c.64: Representation of the People Act
- 1940: 3 & 4 George 6 c.53: Prolongation of Parliament Act
- 1962: 10 & 11 Elizabeth 2 c.34: Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act
Piracy
- Proclamation: 1698: Pardoning Piracy
- 1721: 8 George 1 c.24: The Piracy Act
- 1745: 18 George 2 c. 30: Piracy Act Amendment
Poor Relief
- 1601: 43 Elizabeth 1 c.2: Act for the relief of the poor
- 1662: 13 & 14 Charles 2 c.12: Act for the Better Relief of the Poor
- 1857: 20 Victoria c.19: Relief of the Poor in Extra-parochial Places
- 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.18: Metropolitan Poor Amendment
Postage, Post Office
- 1731: 4 George 2 c.33: Obviating doubts about the Penny Post
- 1806: 46 George 3 c.61: Postage Act
- 1810: 50 George 3 c.66: Judge Advocate General’s Postage
- 1810: 50 George 3 c.74: Irish Post Office
- 1812: 53 George 3 c.13: Postage Duty Exemption
Prisons and Prisoners
- 1531: 23 Henry 8 c.2: For the making of Gaols within the Realm where none be
- 1701: 1 Anne s.2 c.6: Preventing escapes out of the Queen’s Bench and Fleet prisons
- 1706: 6 Anne c.9: Escape from Prisons
- 1774: 14 George 3 c.20: Discharged Prisoners Act
- 1774: 14 George 3 c.59: Health of Prisoners Act
- 1789: 29 George 3 c.67: Enforcing laws concerning gaols
- 1799: 39 George 3 c.52: Continuing legislation concerning Penitentiary Houses
- 1804: 44 George 3 local act 85: Removal of the prisoners in the Poultry Compter
- 1813: 53 George 3 c.21: Subsistence of Prisoners
- 1813: 53 George 3 c.162: Imprisonment of Felons
- 1823: 4 George 4 c.82: Temporary Removal of Convicts from the General Penitentiary
- 1838: 1 & 2 Victoria c.67: Prisons in the West Indies.
- 1858: 21 Victoria c.22: Abolition of Franchise Prisons
- 1913: 3 & 4 George 5 c.4: Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act
Prisons: Hulks
- 1776: 16 George 3 c.43: Hulks Act
- 1778: 18 George 3 c.62: Continuing the Hulks Act
- 1824: 5 George 4 c.19: Convicts on the Hulks
Public Holidays
- 1605: 3 James 1 c.1: Observance of the fifth of November Act
- 1871: 34 Victoria c.17: Bank Holidays Act
- 1903: 3 Edward 7 c.1: St Patrick’s Day Holiday
Punishments
- 1717: 4 George 1 c.11: The Transportation Act
- 1799: 39 George 3 c.45: Burning in the Hand
- 1799: 39 George 3 c.51: Continuing legislation concerning Transportation
- 1817: 57 George 3 c.75: Abolishing Public Whipping of Women
- 1820: 1 George 4 c.57: Abolishing Whipping of Women
- 1823: 4 George 4 c.48: Judgement of Death Act
- 1834: 4 & 5 William 4 c.26: Abolishing Gibbeting
- 1837: 7 William 4 & 1 Victoria c.23: Abolition of the Pillory
- 1837: 7 William 4 & 1 Victoria c.91: Punishment of Death
- 1862: 25 Victoria c.18: Whipping of Juvenile Offenders
- 1965 c.71: Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act
Royal African Company
- Proclamation: 1674: Regarding the Royal African Company’s Monopoly
- Proclamation: 1685: Prohibiting Trade Within the Royal African Company’s Limits
- 1711: 10 Anne c.34: Royal African Company and Creditors
- 1750: 23 George 2 c.31: African Company Act
- 1783: 23 George 3 c.65: African Company of Merchants Act
Sanctuary and Privileged Places
- 1535-6: 27 Henry 8 c.19: An Act limiting an order for sanctuaries and sanctuary persons
- 1722: 9 George 1 c.28: Suppression of Southwark Mint
- 1724: 11 George 1 c.22: Suppression of Wapping Mint
Scotland
- Scottish Act: 1695: William 2 c.8: Company of Scotland Act
- 1706: 5 Anne c.8: Union with Scotland Act.
- 1714: 1 George 1 Session 2 c.28: Yule Vacance in Scotland
- 1762: 3 George 3 c.6: Regulation of Bread in Scotland
- 1775: 15 George 3 c.28: Colliers and Salters (Scotland) Act
- 1787: 27 George 3 c.18: Scottish Courts
- 1819: 59 George 3 c.70: Repeal of Scottish Duelling Acts
- 1850: 13 & 14 Victoria c.59: Cruelty to Animals (Scotland)
- 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.37: Magistrates in Scotland
Sedition and Treason
- 1580-1: 23 Elizabeth 1 c.2: Against seditious words and rumours
- 1792: Against Seditious Writings and Publications
- 1795: 36 George 3 c.7: Treasonable and Seditious Practices Act
- 1795: 36 George 3 c.8 : Seditious Assemblies Act
- Ireland: 1797: 37 George 3 c.40: Incitement to Disaffection
- 1797: 37 George 3 c.70: Incitement to Mutiny
- 1800: 39 & 40 George 3 c.93: The Treason Act
- 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.6: Seditious Meetings Act
- 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.8: Blasphemous and Seditious Libels
- 1848: 11 Victoria c.12: Treason Felony Act
Slavery
- 1726: 13 George 1 c.8: The South Sea slave trade act
- 1732: 5 George 2 c.7: Recovery of American Debts
- 1797: 37 George 3 c.104: Regulating the shipping of slaves in British vessels from the coast of Africa
- 1797: 37 George 3 c.118: Height of Decks on Slaving Ships
- 1799: 39 George 3 c.80: Regulating the slave trade
- Privy Council Order: 1805: Regulating the Importation of Slaves
- 1807: 47 George 3 sess. 1 c.36: Abolition of Slave Trade
- 1813: 53 George 3 c.112: Prosecutions relating to the Slave Trade
- 1818: 58 George 3 c.49: Explanation of Slave Trade Amendments
- 1818: 58 George 3 c.98: Amending the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
- 1819: 59 George 3 c.97: Slave Trade Offences in Africa
- 1819: 59 George 3 c.120: Registry of Colonial Slaves
- 1820: 1 George 4 c.50: Removal of Slaves from Bahamas to Demerara
- 1827: 7 & 8 George 4 c.74: Treaty with Brazil for suppressing the Slave Trade
- 1830: 11 George 4 & 1 William 4 c.55: Bounties on Seizures of Slaves
- 1833: 3 & 4 William 4 c.73: Abolition of Slavery Act
- 1837: 1 Victoria c.3: Slavery Compensation Act
- 1838: 1 & 2 Victoria c.39: Treaty with Hanseatic Towns for suppressing the Slave Trade
- 1839: 2 & 3 Victoria c.57: Continuing Slave Trade Treaties
- 1843: 6 & 7 Victoria c.98: More effectual suppression of the Slave Trade
- 1845: 8 & 9 Victoria c. 122: Amending Treaty with Brazil for suppressing the Slave Trade
Sodomy
- 1533: 25 Henry 8 c.6: The Buggery Act
- 1548: 2 & 3 Edward 6 c.29: An Act against Buggery
- 1563: Elizabeth 1 c.17: Renewing the Buggery Act
Theatres
- 1768: 8 George 3 c.10: Bath Playhouse
- 1771: 11 George 3 c.16: Liverpool Playhouse
- 1775: 15 George 3 c.47: Manchester Playhouse
- 1786: 26 George 3 c.29: Margate Playhouse
- 1843: 6 & 7 Victoria c.68: Theatre Regulation Act
Time
- 1880: 43 & 44 Victoria c.9: Definition of Time Act
- 1916: 6 & 7 George 5, c.14: Summer Time Act
- 1916: 6 & 7 George 5, c.45: Time (Ireland) Act
Trade
- 1781: 21 George 3 c.28: Portuguese Trade
- 1787: 27 George 3 c.27: Caribbean Trade
- 1787: 27 George 3 c.36: Continuation of Trade Laws
- 1800: 41 George 3 (G.B.) c.11: Importation of Fish
- 1800: 41 George 3 (G.B.) c.25: Hemp importation
- 1800: 41 George 3 (G.B.) c.30: Island Duties
- 1808: 48 George 3 c.34: Prohibition of exportation of Cotton Wool.
- 1846: 9 & 10 Victoria c.22: Repeal of the Corn Laws
Transport Infrastructure: Railways, Roads, Turnpikes
- 1741: 14 George 2 c.42: Preserving public roads
- 1758: 31 George 2 private act 22: Middleton Railway Act
- 1800: 41 George 3 (G.B.) c.26: Continuing Turnpike Acts
- 1842: 5 & 6 Victoria c.23: Turnpike Acts (Ireland) Act
- 1843: 6 & 7 Victoria c.69: Continuance of Turnpike Acts
- 1847: 10 & 11 Victoria c.72: Turnpike Roads (South Wales)
Unions, Combinations, Strikes
- 1800: 39 & 40 George 3 c.106: The Combination Act
- 1940: Statutory Order: No. 1305: Conditions of Employment and National Arbitration
Universities
Vagrancy
- 1535: 27 Henry 8 c.25: Punishing Sturdy Vagabonds and Beggars
- 1824: 5 George 4 c.83: Vagrancy Act
- 1838: 1 & 2 Victoria c.38: Amending the Vagabonds Act
- 1898: 61 & 62 Victoria c.39: Vagrancy Act
Wales
- 1847: 10 & 11 Victoria c.72: Turnpike Roads (South Wales)
- 1881: 44 & 45 Victoria c.61: Sunday Closing (Wales) Act
- 1902: 2 Edward 7 c.14: University of Wales Act
Witchcraft
- 1541-2: 33 Henry 8 c.8: The Act against Conjurations, Witchcraft, Sorcery and Enchantments
- 1563: 5 Elizabeth 1 c.16: An Act against Conjurations, Inchantments and Witchcraft
- Scotland: 1563: Mary c.73: Anentis Witchcraft
- Ireland: 1586: 28 Elizabeth 1 c. 2: An Act against Witchcraft and Sorcerie
- 1604: 1 James 1 c.12: An Act against Witchcraft
- Scotland: 1649 Charles 1 c.31: Act against Consulters with Devils
- 1735: 9 George 2 c.5: The Witchcraft Act
- 1821: 1 & 2 George 4 c.17: Repeal of the Irish Witchcraft Act
- 1951: 14 & 15 George 6 c. 33: Fraudulent Mediums Act
Women
- 1790: 30 George 3 c.48: The (Women’s) Treason Act
- 1817: 57 George 3 c.75: Abolishing Public Whipping of Women
- 1820: 1 George 4 c.57: Abolishing Whipping of Women
- 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.93: Married Women’s Property Act
- 1911: 1 & 2 George 5 c.35: Local Authorities (Ireland) (Qualification of Women) Act
- 1913: 3 & 4 George 5 c.4: Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act
- 1918: 8 & 9 George 5 c.47: Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act
- 1919: 9 & 10 George 5 c.71: Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act
- 1928: 18 & 19 George 5 c.12: Equal Franchise Act
Work and Working Conditions