The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539 (31 Hen. 8. c. 13), sometimes referred to as the Second Act of DissolutionGeoffrey Rudolph Elton. The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press. 1982. Page vii or as the Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries,William John Hardy. Documents Illustrative of English Church History. Macmillan and Co Ltd. 1914. Page 281.Carr, Dorothy. The Reformation in England: To the Accession of Elizabeth I. St Martin's Press. New York. 1968. Page vi. was an act the Parliament of England that provided for the dissolution of 552 monasteries and houses remaining after the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535 (27 Hen. 8. c. 28).
Subsequent developments The whole act, except section 19, was repealed by section 1 of, and part II of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969, which came into force on 1 January 1970.
Section 19 of the act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and part VIII of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989, which came into force on 16 November 1989. The Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission had advised that section 19 was "spent".
See also Dissolution of the Monasteries Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535
Notes
References Halsbury's Statutes The Statutes Revised. Third Edition. HMSO. 1950. Volume I. Pages 199 to 212.