Seventeen years later the Federal Parliament repealed the laws.

* June 21 – Section 28, a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality, is repealed by the Scottish Parliament.

This final Act of the British Parliament regarding Canada had a different name, since it renamed all of the unrepealed earlier British North America Acts, amended some of them, and repealed all others, patriated all remaining legislative and constitutional powers to Canada, and included the Constitution Act, 1982 as its schedule.

Subsequently the South African Parliament passed a Constitution that repealed the South Africa Act.

The Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Imperial Parliament in December 1931, which repealed the Colonial Laws Validity Act and implemented the Balfour Declaration 1926, had a profound impact on the constitutional structure and status of the Union.

This legislation repealed various laws that imposed political disabilities on Roman Catholics, in particular laws that prevented them from becoming members of Parliament.

In its turn, the English Parliament responded with the Alien Act 1705, which threatened to impose economic sanctions and declare Scottish subjects aliens in England, unless Scotland either repealed the Act of Security or moved to unite with England.

A Parliament which was called to meet on 7 October repealed all the legislation of the Coventry parliament the previous year.

Common law can be amended or repealed by Parliament ; murder, by way of example, carries a mandatory life sentence today, but had previously allowed the death penalty.

While the Wars of the Roses effectively ended at Tewkesbury in 1471, Richard III's alleged murder of the Princes in the Tower, coupled with his invalidation by Act of Parliament, subsequently repealed, of the marriage of Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville caused the English people to rally behind the last reasonably legitimate British adult male descendant of Edward III, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond.

Between 1832 and 1989, numerous Acts of Parliament repealed voting restrictions and expanded the franchise from just 5 % of the adult population to all adults 18 and over, leading to the universal suffrage enjoyed by its citizens today.

The Act was repealed on March 18, 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies “ in all cases whatsoever ” by also passing the Declaratory Act.

* An Acte for Laws & Justice to be ministred in Wales in like fourme as it is in this Realme ( 27 Henry VIII c. 26 ), was passed in 1536 in the 8th session of Henry VIII's 5th Parliament, which began on 4 February 1535 / 6, and repealed with effect from 21 December 1993 ; and

* An Acte for certaine Ordinaunces in the Kinges Majesties Domynion and Principalitie of Wales ( 34 and 35 Henry VIII c. 26 ), was passed in 1543 in the 2nd session of Henry VIII's 8th Parliament, which began on 22 January 1542 / 3, and repealed with effect from 3 January 1995.

Hampden lost the case, 7 judges to 5, and ship money continued to be levied, provoking yet more opposition, until, overtaken by events, it was repealed by the Long Parliament.

In response, the New Zealand Parliament introduced the Crimes ( Provocation Repeal ) Amendment Bill, which repealed Sections 169 and 170 of the Crimes Act 1961 and therefore abolishing the partial defence of provocation.

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 ( c 50 ) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which has now been repealed and replaced by the Equality Act 2010 (), except in Northern Ireland where the Act still applies.

Although the Irish Parliament was composed exclusively of representatives of the minority Protestant community in Ireland, it did show sparks of independence, most notably the achievement of full legislative independence in 1782, where all the restrictions previously surrounding the parliament in College Green, notably Poynings ' Law were repealed.

Though a republic since 1949, the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 that had established the Kingdom of Ireland was not finally repealed until 1962, along with many other obsolete Parliament of Ireland statutes.

In 1559, Parliament recognised Elizabeth as the Church's supreme governor, with a new Act of Supremacy that also repealed the remaining anti-Protestant legislation.

The United Kingdom Parliament repealed buggery laws for England and Wales in 1967 ( in so far as they related to consensual homosexual acts in private ), ten years after the Wolfenden report.

The Catholic Relief Act adopted by the Parliament in 1829 repealed the last of the criminal laws aimed at Catholic citizens of Great Britain.

Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and save face.

On March 18, 1766, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and passed the Declaratory Act.

Parliament believed that these acts, such as the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Acts of 1767, were a legitimate means of having the colonies pay their fair share of the costs to keep the colonies in the British Empire.

After the Townshend Acts, some essayists even began to question whether Parliament had any legitimate jurisdiction in the colonies at all.

* 1767 – The Townshend Acts, named for Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, are passed by Parliament ( June 29 ), placing duties on many items imported into America.

Parliament believed that these acts, such as the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Acts of 1767, were legitimate means of having the colonies pay their fair share of the costs of maintaining the British Empire.

Although protests led to the repeal of the Stamp and Townshend Acts, Parliament adhered to the position that it had the right to legislate for the colonies " in all cases whatsoever " in the Declaratory Act of 1766.

After the Townshend Acts, some colonial essayists took this line of thinking even further, and began to question whether Parliament had any legitimate jurisdiction in the colonies at all.

The Boston Gazette noted that for his wedding he wore a suit entirely made in North America ; at the time, Whigs were trying to organize a boycott of British products to pressure Parliament into repealing the Townshend Acts.

Uncertainty about the legality of writs of assistance issued by colonial superior courts prompted Parliament to affirm that such writs were legal in the 1767 Townshend Acts.

In 1767 the passage by Parliament of the Townshend Acts again raised a storm of protest in the colonies.

When troops were sent to Boston in 1768 after protests against the Townshend Acts turned violent, he took to the floor of Parliament, warning that the connections between Britain and the colonies were unraveling, and that the end result could be a permanent breach.

Lord Townshend was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy and also sat as Member of Parliament for Tamworth.

He opposed the Townshend Acts passed by Parliament in 1767 to pay for the French and Indian War and supported the non importation agreements devised by the colonies to protest taxation without representation.

The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.

The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.

As a result of the massacre in Boston, Parliament began to consider a motion to partially repeal the Townshend duties.

He was first elected to Parliament in the 1987 elections as MP for Kaimai, replacing Bruce Townshend.

In 1767, the British Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which imposed import duties on paper, glass, paint, and other common items imported into the American colonies.

After the Stamp Act was repealed in 1766, the British Parliament imposed the Townshend Acts as another way of generating revenue.

In the Circular Letter, Samuel Adams argued that the Townshend Acts were unconstitutional because the colony of Massachusetts was not represented in Parliament.

John Villiers Stuart Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend ( 10 April 1831 – 26 October 1899 ), known as Viscount Raynham from 1855 to 1863, was a British peer and Liberal Member of Parliament.