The Dean Forest Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 40) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a public general act.The Chronological Table of the Statutes, 1235 - 2010. The Stationery Office. 2011. . Part I. Page vii. Paragraph 1(c) and note 1. It was omitted from the third revised edition of the statutes because of its local and personal nature.The Statutes Revised. Third Edition. HMSO. 1950. Volume VII. Page xi, read with page xi of volume I.
The act was partly in force in Great Britain at the end of 2010.The Chronological Table of the Statutes, 1235 - 2010. The Stationery Office. 2011. . Part I. Page 417, read with pages ix and x.
Section 7 In the case of any grant after the passing of the Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1904 (4 Edw. 7. c. clvi) of any gale to which that act applies section 7 of the Dean Forest Act 1861 (which relates to the cesser and refixing of rents and royalties) has effect as though such number of years not exceeding sixty-three as may be specified in the grant were substituted for twenty-one years in that section.The Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1904, section 4 (as read with s 9)
Subsequent developments The preamble to, and sections 2, 5, 6, 17, 22 and 27 of, the act were repealed by section 1 of, and part VII of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969, which came into force on 1 January 1970. These provisions had been agreed by the Forestry Commission to be obsolete, spent, unnecessary or superseded.
Section 25 of the act was repealed by section 1(4) of, and the schedule to, the Wild Creatures and Forest Laws Act 1971, which came into force on 1 July 1971.
Section 26 was amended by paragraph 2 of the schedule to the Dean Forest and New Forest Acts (Amendment) Regulations 1979 (SI 1979/836).These regulations were made under the Forestry Act 1979. They took effect from 16 August 1979.
See also English land law Laws of the Forest of Dean and Hundred of Saint Briavels
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