List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1879

This is a list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in the calendar year 1879 and the session of the 42nd and 43rd years of the reign of Queen Victoria (42 & 43 Vict). It was the sixth session of the twenty-first Parliament of the United Kingdom. Sources published during the regnal year 42 Vict refer to this session as 42 Vict, because, at that time, it was not known when the session would end.

During this session the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed 78 public general acts; 41 public acts of a local character, which were placed amongst the local and personal acts; 225 local acts; and 8 private acts printed by the Queen's Printer.

The number shown after each act's short title or popular title is its chapter number. Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held. Most but not all of these acts have a short title. Some have a short title given to them by later acts, such as by the Short Titles Act 1896.

Public general acts

 * Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act 1879 c. 46
 * Appropriation Act 1879 c. 51
 * Army Discipline and Regulation Act 1879 c. 33
 * Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act (1868) Amendment Act 1879 c. 64
 * Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act 1879 c. 63
 * Assessed Rates Act 1879 c. 10
 * Bankers' Books Evidence Act 1879 c. 11
 * Bills of Sale (Ireland) Act 1879 c. 50
 * Children's Dangerous Performances Act 1879 c. 34
 * Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act 1879 c. 59
 * Commissioners of Woods (Thames Piers) Act 1879 c. 73
 * Commons Act 1879 c. 37
 * Companies Act 1879 c. 76
 * Confirmation of Marriages on Her Majesty's Ships Act 1879 c. 29
 * Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act 1879 c. 2
 * Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1879 c. 7
 * Consolidated Fund (No. 3) Act 1879 c. 14
 * Consolidated Fund (No. 4) Act 1879 c. 20
 * Convention (Ireland) Act Repeal Act 1879 c. 28
 * Convention of Royal Burghs (Scotland) Act 1879 c. 27
 * Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874 Amendment Act 1879 c. 40
 * Customs Buildings Act 1879 c. 36
 * Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1879 c. 21
 * Dispensary Houses (Ireland) Act 1879 c. 25
 * District Auditors Act 1879 c. 6
 * East India Loan Act 1879 c. 60
 * East Indian Loan (Annuities) Act 1879 c. 61
 * East Indian Railway (Redemption of Annuities) Act 1879 c. 43
 * Elementary Education (Industrial Schools) Act 1879 c. 48
 * Endowed School Acts Continuance Act 1879 c. 66
 * Exchequer Bills and Bonds Act 1879 c. 62
 * Exchequer Bonds (No. 1) Act 1879 c. 3
 * Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1879 c. 67
 * Friendly Societies Amendment Act 1879  c. 9. Also called the Friendly Societies Act 1879,  and the Friendly Societies Act (1875) Amendment Act.
 * Habitual Drunkards Act 1879 c. 19
 * Hares Preservation (Ireland) Act 1879 c. 23
 * Highway Accounts Returns Act 1879 c. 39
 * House of Commons Costs Taxation Act 1879 c. 17
 * Indian Advance Act 1879 c. 45
 * Indian Guaranteed Railways Act 1879 c. 41
 * Land Tax Commissioners (Names) Act 1879 c. 52
 * Lord Clerk Register (Scotland) Act 1879 c. 44
 * Marine Mutiny Act (Temporary) Continuance Act 1879 c. 5
 * Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Act 1879 c. 69
 * Metropolitan Board of Works Indemnity Act 1879 c. 68
 * Military Prisons Act 1879 or the Army Discipline and Regulation (Commencement) Act 1879 c. 32
 * Municipal Elections (Ireland) Act 1879 c. 53
 * Mutiny Act (Temporary) Continuance Act 1879 c. 4
 * National School Teachers (Ireland) Act 1879 c. 74
 * Parliamentary Elections and Corrupt Practices Act 1879 c. 75
 * Petroleum Act 1879 c. 47
 * Petty Customs (Scotland) Abolition Act Amendment Act c. 13. Sometimes called the Burgh, Scotland (Petty Customs), Act 1879.
 * Poor Law Act 1879 c. 54
 * Poor Law Amendment Act 1879 c. 12
 * Prevention of Crime Act 1879 c. 55
 * Prosecution of Offences Act 1879 c. 22
 * Public Health (Interments) Act 1879 c. 31
 * Public Health (Ireland) Amendment Act 1879 c. 57
 * Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867 Amendment Act 1879 c. 15. Sometimes called the Public Health (Scotland) Amendment Act 1879.
 * Public Loans Remission Act 1879 c. 35
 * Public Offices Fees Act 1879 c. 58
 * Public Works Loans Act 1879 c. 77
 * Racecourses Licensing Act 1879 c. 18. Sometimes called the Racecourse Licensing Act 1879.
 * Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Army) Act 1879 c. 8
 * Registry Courts (Ireland) Amendment Act 1879 c. 71
 * Regulation of Railways Acts 1873 and 1874 Continuance Act 1879 c. 56
 * Sale of Food and Drugs Act Amendment Act 1879 c. 30
 * Salmon Fishery Law Amendment Act 1879 c. 26
 * Shipping Casualties Investigations Act 1879 c. 72
 * Slave Trade (East African Courts) Act 1879 c. 38
 * Spring Assizes Act 1879 c. 1
 * Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1879 c. 24
 * Summary Jurisdiction Act 1879 c. 49
 * Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act 1879 c. 78
 * University Education (Ireland) Act 1879 c. 65
 * Vaccination Amendment (Ireland) Act 1879 c. 70
 * Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Amendment Act 1879 c. 42
 * West India Loan Act 1879 c. 16

Chapters 1 to 100

 * Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Order Confirmation Act 1879 c. i
 * Drainage and Improvement of Lands Supplemental Act (Ireland) 1879 c. ii
 * General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act 1862 Order Confirmation (Paisley) Act 1879 c. iii
 * General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act 1862 Order Confirmation (Inverness) Act 1879 c. iv
 * Dover and Deal Railway Act 1879 c. v
 * Grand Junction Waterworks Act 1879 c. vi
 * North and South Woolwich Subway Act 1879 c. vii
 * Ecclesiastical Commissioners (Croydon) Act 1879 c. viii
 * Bury Saint Edmund's Gas Act 1879 c. ix
 * New River Company's Act 1879 c. x
 * Nottingham Waterworks Act 1879 c. xi
 * Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Bridge Act 1879 c. xii
 * Burnt Fen District Act 1879 c. xiii
 * Chester Cemetery (Extension) Act 1879 c. xiv
 * Brewood and Wolverhampton Railway (Abandonment) Act 1879 c. xv
 * Forth Bridge Railway Act 1879 c. xvi
 * Westgate and Birchington Water Act 1879 c. xvii
 * Llandudno Improvement Act 1879 c. xviii
 * Whitby Port and Harbour Act 1879 c. xix
 * Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society's Act 1879 c. xx
 * Borough of Portsmouth Waterworks Act 1879 c. xxi
 * Saint Bartholomew's Hospital and Brasenose College Act 1879 c. xxii
 * Leeds Corporation Act 1879 c. xxiii
 * South Dublin Railway (Abandonment) Act 1879 c. xxiv
 * Sidmouth Railway Act 1879 c. xxv
 * Pemberton Local Board Water Act 1879 c. xxvi
 * Gosport Street Tramways Act 1879 c. xxvii
 * Lewes Cattle Market Act 1879 c. xxviii
 * Rathkeale and Newcastle Junction Railway Act 1879 c. xxix
 * South Western and the Brighton Railway Companies (Steam Vessels) Act 1879 c. xxx
 * London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Various Powers) Act 1879 c. xxxi
 * Severn Bridge and Forest of Dean Central Railway Act 1879 c. xxxii
 * Sleaford Water Act 1879 c. xxxiii
 * Vicars and Smith's Patent Act 1879 c. xxxiv
 * Tipton Local Board Act 1879 c. xxxv
 * Manchester Corporation Waterworks Act 1879 c. xxxvi
 * Birmingham (Corporation) Water Act 1879 c. xxxvii
 * Brighton and Hove Gas Act 1879 c. xxxviii
 * Saint Pancras Loans Act 1879 c. xxxix
 * Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act 1879 c. xl
 * Land Drainage Supplemental Act 1879 c. xli
 * Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867 Order Confirmation (Castle Douglas) Act 1879 c. xlii
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Ashton-under-Lyne, &c.) Act 1879 c. xliii
 * Cranbrook and Paddock Wood Railway Act 1879 c. xliv
 * London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Act 1879 c. xlv
 * Greenock Railway Guaranteed Company's Act 1879 c. xlvi
 * Lancashire County Justices Act 1879 c. xlvii
 * North British Railway (General Powers) Act 1879 c. xlviii
 * East London Railway Act 1879 c. xlix
 * Bromley Gas Act 1879 c. l
 * Rawmarsh Local Board Act 1879 c. li
 * East Cornwall Mineral Railway Act 1879 c. lii
 * Merionethshire Railway (Extension of Time) Act 1879 c. liii
 * Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Clonmel, &c.) Act 1879 c. liv
 * Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation Act 1879 c. lv
 * Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Order (Downpatrick) Confirmation Act 1879 c. lvi
 * Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Cashel, &c.) Act 1879 c. lvii
 * Education Department Provisional Orders Confirmation (Brighton and Preston, &c.) Act 1879 c. lviii
 * Education Department Provisional Order Confirmation (London) Act 1879 c. lix
 * Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Waterford, &c.) Act 1879 c. lx
 * Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867 Order Confirmation (Bothwell) Act 1879 c. lxi
 * Bath Act 1879 c. lxii
 * City of London School Act 1879 c. lxiii
 * Glossop Gas Act 1879 c. lxiv
 * Wellington Street United Presbyterian Church (Glasgow) Act 1879 c. lxv
 * Dun Drainage Act Amendment Act 1879 c. lxvi
 * Millwall Dock Act 1879 c. lxvii
 * West Kent Main Sewerage (Amendment) Act 1879 c. lxviii
 * East Norfolk Railway Act 1879 c. lxix
 * Imperial Continental Gas Association Act 1879 c. lxx
 * Thames and Severn Canal Act 1879 c. lxxi
 * Southwark and Deptford Tramways Act 1879 c. lxxii
 * Grantham Extension Act 1879 c. lxxiii
 * Ilkley Gas Act 1879 c. lxxiv
 * Yarmouth and North Norfolk (Light) Railway Act 1879 c. lxxv
 * Colwyn Bay Waterworks Act 1879 c. lxxvi
 * Local Government Board's (Highways) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Buckingham, &c.) Act 1879 c. lxxvii
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Aysgarth Union, &c.) Act 1879 c. lxxviii
 * Metropolis (Little Coram Street, Bloomsbury, Wells Street, Poplar, and Great Peter Street, Westminster) Improvement Provisional Orders Confirmation Act 1879 c. lxxix
 * Metropolis (Whitechapel and Limehouse) Improvement Scheme Modification Act 1879 c. lxxx
 * Inclosure and Regulation (Matterdale) Provisional Orders Confimration Act 1879 c. lxxxi
 * Inclosure (Redmoor and Golberdon) Provisional Order Confirmation Act 1879 c. lxxxii
 * Inclosure and Regulation (East Stainmore) Provsional Orders Confirmation Act 1879 c. lxxxiii
 * Local Government Board's (Highways) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Gloucester and Hereford) Act 1879 c. lxxxiv
 * Local Government Board's (Highways) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Dorset, &c.) Act 1879 c. lxxxv
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Castleton-by-Rochdale, &c.) Act 1879 c. lxxxvi
 * Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Killarney, &c.) Act 1879 c. lxxxvii
 * Aberdeen Harbour Act 1879 c. lxxxviii
 * Nelson Local Board Act 1879 c. lxxxix
 * Goole Lighting Act 1879 c. xc
 * Swindon, Marlborough, and Andover Railway Act 1879 c. xci
 * Warrington Corporation Lighting and Improvement Act 1879 c. xcii
 * Christ Church (City) Tithe Act 1879 c. xciii
 * Great Southern and Western Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1879 c. xciv
 * Clare Slob Land Reclamation Extension Act 1879 c. xcv
 * Liverpool United Tramways and Omnibus Company's Act 1879 c. xcvi
 * Eastbourne Improvement Act 1879 c. xcvii
 * St. Alban City Improvement Act 1879 c. xcviii
 * Stourbridge Gas Amendment Act 1879 c. xcix
 * Dudley Sewage Act 1879 c. c

Chapters 101 to 200

 * Maryport Improvement (Harbour) Act 1879 c. ci
 * Leadenhall Market Act 1879 c. cii
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Abergavenny Union, &c.) Act 1879 c. ciii
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Axminster Union, &c.) Act 1879 c. civ
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Aspull, &c.) Act 1879 c. cv
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Poor Law) Act 1879 c. cvi
 * Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Act 1879 c. cvii
 * Midland Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1879 c. cviii
 * West Lancashire Railway Act 1879 c. cix
 * Great Northern and Great Eastern Railway Companies Act 1879 c. cx
 * Weardale and Shildon District Waterworks Act 1879 c. cxi
 * Neath and Brecon Railway Act 1879 c. cxii
 * Crystal Palace District Gas Act 1879 c. cxiii
 * Houghton-le-Spring District Gas Act 1879 c. cxiv
 * London and North-western Railway (Denbigh, Ruthin, and Corwen Railway Vesting) Act 1879 c. cxv
 * Blackburn Improvement Act 1879 c. cxvi
 * London and North-western Railway (New Railways) Act 1879 c. cxvii
 * Portsmouth, &c. Tramways Act 1879 c. cxviii
 * Stratford-upon-Avon Borough Act 1879 c. cxix
 * Southend Waterworks Act 1879 c. cxx
 * Colchester Waterworks Act 1879 c. cxxi
 * Glasgow Corporation Tramways Act 1879 c. cxxii
 * Glasgow Municipal Act 1879 c. cxxiii
 * Wombwell Local Board Gas Act 1879 c. cxxiv
 * Norwich Improvement Act 1879 c. cxxv
 * Hundred of Hoo Railway Act 1879 c. cxxvi
 * Great Grimsby Street Tramways Act 1879 c. cxxvii
 * Church Fenton, Cawood, and Wistow Railway Act 1879 c. cxxviii
 * Great Northern Railway (Further Powers) Act 1879 c. cxxix
 * Birmingham Gas (Northfield and Yardley) Act 1879 c. cxxx
 * Arlecdon and Frizington Water Act 1879 c. cxxxi
 * Edinburgh Municipal and Police Act 1879 c. cxxxii
 * Cardiff Corporation Act 1879 c. cxxxiii
 * South Shields Gas Act 1879 c. cxxxiv
 * Preston Gas Act 1879 c. cxxxv
 * Lancaster Gas Act 1879 c. cxxxvi
 * Morecambe Gas Act 1879 c. cxxxvii
 * Mirfield Gas Act 1879 c. cxxxviii
 * Taff Vale Railway Act 1879 c. cxxxix
 * Ayr Harbour Amendment Act 1879 c. cxl
 * Wisbech Gas Act 1879 c. cxli
 * London and North-western Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1879 c. cxlii
 * Plymouth and Stonehouse Gas Act 1879 c. cxliii
 * Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Act 1879 c. cxliv
 * North British (Bothwell Railway Amalgamation) Act 1879 c. cxlv
 * Furness Railway Act 1879 c. cxlvi
 * Metropolitan Railway Act 1879 c. cxlvii
 * Bridport Railway Act 1879 c. cxlviii
 * Pulteney Harbour Act 1879 c. cxlix
 * Great Eastern Railway Act 1879 c. cl
 * Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Act 1879 c. cli
 * Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead Gas Act 1879 c. clii
 * South-eastern Railway Act 1879 c. cliii
 * Walton-on-the-Naze and Frinton Improvement Act 1879 c. cliv
 * North British Railway, Dundee and Arbroath Joint Line Act 1879 c. clv
 * Queenstown Gas and Light Act 1879 c. clvi
 * Sharpness Docks Act 1879 c. clvii
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Order Confirmation (Artizans and Labourers Dwellings) Act 1879 c. clviii
 * Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Act 1879 c. clix
 * Wormwood Scrubs Act 1879 c. clx. (An Act to provide for the user and regulation of certain Lands at Wormwood Scrubs.) Royal assent: 21 July 1879. Scan.
 * Cork Borough Court Amendment Act 1879 c. clxi
 * Inclosure (Whittington) Provisional Order Confirmation Act 1879 c. clxii
 * Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge Railway Companies Act 1879 c. clxiii
 * Belfast Central Railway Act 1879 c. clxiv
 * Cambridge Street Tramways Act 1879 c. clxv
 * Treferig Valley Railway Act 1879 c. clxvi
 * Upper Mersey Navigation Act 1879 c. clxvii
 * Dublin (South) City Market Amendment Act 1879 c. clxviii
 * East and West India Dock Company's Act 1879 c. clxix
 * Dublin Port and Docks Act 1879 c. clxx
 * Portmadoc, Croesor and Beddgelert Tram Railway Act 1879 c. clxxi
 * Belfast Water Act 1879 c. clxxii
 * London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (Sevenoaks Railway Purchase) Act 1879 c. clxxiii
 * Ballymena and Larne Railway Act 1879 c. clxxiv
 * River Bann Navigation Act 1879 c. clxxv
 * London (City) Tithes Act 1879 c. clxxvi
 * Felixstowe Railway and Dock Act 1879 c. clxxvii
 * Grand Junction Canal Act 1879 c. clxxviii
 * West Donegal Railway Act 1879 c. clxxix
 * Medway Docks (Extension of Time) Act 1879 c. clxxx
 * Caledonian Railway Act 1879 c. clxxxi
 * Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Act 1879 c. clxxxii
 * Alliance and Dublin Gas Act 1879 c. clxxxiii
 * London Bridge Approaches Act 1879 c. clxxxiv
 * Whitehaven Town and Harbour Act 1879 c. clxxxv
 * Birkenhead Tramways Act 1879 c. clxxxvi
 * Cork and Kinsale Junction, Cork and Bandon, West Cork, and Ilen Valley Railways Act 1879 c. clxxxvii
 * Downham and Stoke Ferry Railway Act 1879 c. clxxxviii
 * London Street Tramways (Extension) Act 1879 c. clxxxix
 * Manchester Suburban Tramways Act 1879 c. cxc
 * Rotherham Borough Extension and Sewerage Act 1879 c. cxci
 * Saint Helens and District Tramways Act 1879 c. cxcii
 * Tramways Orders Confirmation Act 1879 c. cxciii
 * New Forest Act 1879 c. cxciv
 * Freiston Shore Reclamation Act 1879 c. cxcv
 * Tring Poor's Land (Sale and Exchange) Act 1879 c. cxcvi
 * South London Tramways Act 1879 c. cxcvii
 * Metropolis Management (Thames River Prevention of Floods) Amendment Act 1879 c. cxcviii
 * Blackpool Improvement Act 1879 c. cxcix
 * Leicester Corporation Act 1879 c. cc

Chapters 201 to 225

 * Metropolitan and District Railways (City Lines and Extensions) Act 1879 c. cci
 * Over Darwen Improvement Act 1879 c. ccii
 * Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway Act 1879 c. cciii
 * Nottingham Improvement Act 1879 c. cciv
 * North Staffordshire Railway Act 1879 c. ccv
 * East Indian Railway Company Purchase Act 1879 c. ccvi
 * Brentford and Isleworth Tramways Act 1879 c. ccvii
 * Llandisilio Commissioners Act 1879 c. ccviii
 * Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway Act 1879 c. ccix
 * Ballymena and Portglenone Railway Act 1879 c. ccx
 * Ramsgate and Margate Tramways Act 1879 c. ccxi
 * Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway Act 1879 c. ccxii
 * Liverpool (Corporation) Electric Lighting Act 1879 c. ccxiii
 * Alloa Railway Act 1879 c. ccxiv
 * Derby Improvement Act 1879 c. ccxv
 * Halesowen Railway Act 1879 c. ccxvi
 * Knutsford Light and Water Act 1879 c. ccxvii
 * Ardmillan Reclamation Amendment Act 1879 c. ccxviii
 * Knightsbridge and other Crown Lands Act 1879 c. ccxix
 * Mungret Agricultural School, &c. Act c. ccxx. Sometimes called the Mungret Agricultural School, &c. Act 1879
 * St. Giles Ancient Church (Edinburgh) Act 1879 c. ccxxi
 * Erne Lough and River Act 1879 c. ccxxii
 * Easton Neston Mineral and Towcester, Roade, and Olney Junction Railway Act 1879 c. ccxxiii
 * Enniskillen, Bundoran, and Sligo Railway (Donegal Extension) and Enniskillen and Bundoran Extension Railway (Abandonment) Act 1879 c. ccxxiv
 * Blackburn and Over Darwen Tramways Act 1879 c. ccxxv

Tables and indexes
There are tables of the statutes of this year and session; indexes to the statutes of this year and session; and tables of the effect of the legislation of this year and session.