First Statute of Repeal

Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long title	An Acte for the Repeale of certayne Statutes made in the time of the Reigne of Kinge Edwarde the Syxthe.
Citation	1 Mar. Sess. 2. c. 2
Dates
Royal assent	5 December 1553
Commencement	24 October 1553
Other legislation
Repealed by	Continuance of Laws, etc. Act 1603
Status: Repealed

The First Statute of Repeal was an Act of the Parliament of England (1 Mar. Sess. 2. c. 2), passed in 1553 in the first Parliament of Mary I's reign, nullified all religious legislation passed under the previous monarch, the boy-king Edward VI, and the de facto rulers of that time, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland.

Elizabeth I's Act of Uniformity 1558 nullified this act, stating that:

at the death of our late sovereign lord King Edward VI there remained one uniform order of common service and prayer, and of the administration of sacraments, rites, and ceremonies in the Church of England, which was set forth in one book, intituled: The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of Sacraments [...] the said statute of repeal, and everything therein contained, only concerning the said book, and the service, administration of sacraments, rites, and ceremonies contained or appointed in or by the said book, shall be void and of none effect.[1]

The statute was repealed by Section 8 of the 1603 act of Parliament 1 Jas. 1. c. 25.

See also

• Revival of the Heresy Acts
• Second Statute of Repeal

References

1. Text of Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity, 1559