Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act 1962

Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act 1962^[a]
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to provide for the numbering and citation of future Acts of Parliament by reference to the calendar year in which they are passed.
Citation	10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 34
Introduced by	Viscount Kilmuir (the Lord Chancellor) (Lords)
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	19 July 1962
Commencement	19 July 1962
Status: Current legislation
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act 1962 (10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 34) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has never been amended. It was introduced because the existing system of citing acts by session and chapter was considered inconvenient.^[1]

Provisions

Section 1 of the act provides that the chapter number of every act of Parliament passed on or after 1 January 1963 is assigned by reference to the calendar year in which it has been passed, instead of by reference to the session of parliament in which it has been passed. Section 1 of the act further provides that any such act may be cited accordingly in any act, instrument or document.

Section 2 of the act authorises the citation of this act by a short title.

Notes

^ The citation of this act by this short title is authorised by section 2 of the act. The comma preceding the calendar year in printed copies of the act is omitted on the authority of a note by Sir Noel Hutton QC, First Parliamentary Counsel, as to which see "The Citation of Statutes" 82 LQR 24-24. The validity of this note is questioned by Halsbury's Laws of England, Fourth Edition, Reissue, Volume 44(1), footnote 10 to paragraph 1268.
^ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.