The Sunday Fairs Act 1448 (27 Hen. 6. c. 5) was an act of the Parliament of England.
Subsequent developments The act was extended to Ireland by Poynings' Law 1495 (10 Hen. 7. c. 22 (I)).
The exception of the four Sundays in Harvest was repealed by section 1 of the Fairs and Markets Act 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 23).
The words from "Provided always that" to the end were repealed by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 62), which came into force on 30 July 1948.
The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and part IV of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969, which came into force on 1 January 1970. The repeal of the act does not have the effect of requiring any market or fair to be held on a Sunday, Good Friday, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi Day, the Feast of the Assumption of Our Blessed Lady or All Saints' Day; and a market or fair may continue to be held on any day on which it might lawfully have been held if the act had not been repealed.
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References Halsbury's Statutes