1725: 12 George 1 c.30: An act for continuing an act made in the ninth year of his Majesty’s reign, intituled, An act for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil-disposed persons going armed in disguise, and doing injuries and violences to the persons and properties of his Majesty’s subjects, and for the more speedy bringing the offenders to justice.

WHEREAS the act herein after mentioned hath by experience been found useful and beneficial, and is near expiring; may it therefore please your majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King’s most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,

[9 Geo. 1. c.12.]

that an act made in the ninth year of his present Majesty’s reign, intituled, An act for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil-disposed persons going armed in disguise, and doing injuries and violences to the persons and properties of his Majesty’s subjects, and for the more speedy bringing continued for the offenders to justice,

[Act 9 Geo. 1. continued for 5 years, &c.]

which act was to continue in force for three years, from the first day of June one thousand seven hundred and twenty three,

[24 Geo. 2. c.57.]

and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, shall be, and is hereby continued from the expiration thereof, for and during the space of five years, and from thence to the end of the then next section of parliament.

Source: Pickering, Statutes at Large, vol. 15.

Further reading: Wikipedia.

Related statute: 1723: 9 George 1 c.22: The Black Act.