# List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1947

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This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1947.
Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland. For acts passed up until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland. For acts passed from 1707 to 1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. See also the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland.
For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the list of acts of the Scottish Parliament, the list of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
The number shown after each act's 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; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3". Acts passed from 1963 onwards are simply cited by calendar year and chapter number.

## 10 & 11 Geo. 6

Continuing the second session of the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom, which met from 12 November 1946 until 20 October 1947.
This session was also traditionally cited as 10 & 11 G. 6.

### Public general acts

{{legislationuk|act |- | {{|Greenwich Hospital Act 1947|public|5|18-02-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y|An Act to repeal certain restrictions on the amount of special Greenwich Hospital pensions and of expenditure out of Greenwich Hospital Funds for the education and maintenance of children, and to make further provision for the granting out of those Funds of widows' pensions, children's allowances and gratuities to dependants.|note4= (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2008 (c. 12)) }}
| {{|Trustee Savings Banks Act 1947|public|6|18-02-1947|repealed=y|An Act to make further provision as to the superannuation benefits of officers of trustee savings banks and of the Inspection Committee, and to empower trustee savings banks to make advances for the extension or formation of other such banks.|note4= (Repealed by Trustee Savings Banks Act 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. 63)) }}
| {{|Pensions (Increase) Act 1947|public|7|18-02-1947|An Act to authorise further increases under, and otherwise amend, the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1944, and to continue that Act in force as amended; to authorise further increases under the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1920; and to authorise increases in pensions to which that Act does not apply.}}
| {{|Road Traffic (Driving Licences) Act 1947|public|8|18-02-1947|An Act to revoke certain emergency provision as to licences to drive motor vehicles, and make provision with respect to the grant of such licences to persons who have held such licences under the emergency provision; and to amend the law as to the destination of fees in respect of driving tests.}}
| {{|Malta (Reconstruction) Act 1947|public|9|18-02-1947|repealed=y|An Act to assist the government of Malta to meet their liabilities for war damage and other expenses, and for purposes connected therewith.|note4= (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39)) }} -
| {{|House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1947|public|10|18-02-1947|archived=n|An Act to relax the rules set out in the Third Schedule to the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act, 1944, so far as they relate to the application of the electoral quota and, in consequence thereof, to postpone the enumeration date for the purposes of the initial report under section three of that Act.}}
| {{|Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1947|public|11|11-03-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to authorise the appointment of additional Lords of Appeal in Ordinary.|note4= (Repealed by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)) }}
| {{|Births and Deaths Registration Act 1947|public|12|11-03-1947|archived=n|An Act to provide for an additional type of birth certificate.}}
| {{|County Councils Association Expenses (Amendment) Act 1947|public|13|11-03-1947|archived=n|An Act to alter the maximum annual subscription which county councils may pay to the County Councils Association.}}
| {{|Exchange Control Act 1947|public|14|11-03-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to confer powers, and impose duties and restrictions, in relation to gold, currency, payments, securities, debts, and the import, export, transfer and settlement of property, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act 1947|public|15|11-03-1947|archived=n|An Act to transfer functions of agricultural wages committees to the Agricultural Wages Board and to the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board; to make further provision as to the fixing, cancelling and varying of minimum rates of agricultural wages, as to learners employed in agriculture, and as to agricultural workers disabled from earning the minimum rate of wages; to remove restrictions on the holidays which may be granted to agricultural workers under the Holidays with Pay Act, 1938; to extend the definition of "agriculture" in the enactments relating to the regulation of agricultural wages; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Summer Time Act 1947|public|16|11-03-1947|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to amend the Summer Time Acts, 1922 and 1925.|note4= (Repealed by Summer Time Act 1972 (c. 6)) }}
| {{|Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Act 1947|public|17|27-03-1947|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven and one thousand nine hundred and Forty-eight.|note4= (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (14 Geo. 6. c. 6)) }}
| {{|Air Navigation Act 1947|public|18|27-03-1947|archived=n|An Act to provide for giving effect to a Convention on International Civil Aviation signed at Chicago on the seventh day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-four, and to make further provision for the regulation of air navigation; to provide for giving effect to certain provisions of an Interim Agreement on International Civil Aviation so signed; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Polish Resettlement Act 1947|public|19|27-03-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to provide for the application of the Royal Warrant as to pensions, etc., for the military forces to certain Polish forces, to enable the Assistance Board to meet the needs of, and to provide accommodation in camps or other establishments for, certain Poles and others associated with Polish forces, to provide for their requirements as respects health and educational services, to provide for making arrangements and meeting expenses in connection with their emigration, to modify as respects the Polish resettlement forces and past members of certain Polish forces provisions relating to the service of aliens in the forces of the Crown, to provide for the discipline and internal administration of certain Polish forces and to affirm the operation up to the passing of this Act of provision previously made therefor, and for purposes connected therewith and consequential thereon.}} -
| {{|Dog Racecourse Betting (Temporary Provisions) Act 1947|public|20|27-03-1947|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to make temporary provision for limiting betting on licensed dog racecourses to Saturdays and certain other days, for varying for those days the restrictions on the number of races on which and the time during which such betting may take place, and for purposes connected therewith.|note4= (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (14 Geo. 6. c. 6)) }}
| {{|Forestry Act 1947|public|21|27-03-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to provide for the dedication of land to forestry purposes; for the deduction from compensation of grants made by the Forestry Commissioners in the event of compulsory purchase of the land in respect of which the grants were made; and for the execution on behalf of the Secretary of State of instruments relating to land placed at the disposal of the Forestry Commissioners.}}
| {{|Civic Restaurants Act 1947|public|22|02-04-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to empower local authorities to establish and carry on restaurants, and otherwise provide for the supply to the public of meals and refreshments, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Treaties of Peace (Italy, Roumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland) Act 1947|public|23|29-04-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to provide for carrying into effect Treaties of Peace between His Majesty and certain other Powers.}}
| {{|Naval Forces (Enforcement of Maintenance Liabilities) Act 1947|public|24|29-04-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to authorise deductions under the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act, 1865, for the maintenance of wives and children; to restrict the discontinuance of allotments of pay; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.|note4= (Repealed by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52)) }}
| {{|Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1947|public|25|29-04-1947|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to provide, during twelve months, for the discipline and regulation of the Army and the Air Force.|note4= (Repealed by Revision of the Army and Air Force Acts (Transitional Provisions) Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2. c. 20)) }}
| {{|Cotton (Centralised Buying) Act 1947|public|26|21-05-1947|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to make provision for centralised buying, selling and distribution of raw cotton, for the establishment of a Commission for that purpose and for the purpose of research in connection with raw cotton and its manufacture, and for matters connected therewith.|note4= (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39)) }}
| {{|National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947|public|27|21-05-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to provide for the establishment of a comprehensive health service for Scotland, and for purposes connected therewith.|note4= (Repealed by National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29)) }}
| {{|Isle of Man Harbours Act 1947|public|28|18-07-1947|archived=n|An Act to dissolve the Isle of Man Harbour Commissioners and to transfer to a body specified or constituted by Act of Tynwald the functions, property, rights and liabilities of those Commissioners and of His Majesty's Receiver-General for the Isle of Man in his capacity as such.}}
| {{|Penicillin Act 1947|public|29|18-07-1947|archived=n|An Act to control the sale and supply of penicillin and certain other substances.}}
| {{|Indian Independence Act 1947|public|30|18-07-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to make provision for the setting up in India of two independent Dominions, to substitute other provisions for certain provisions of the Government of India Act, 1935, which apply outside those Dominions, and to provide for other matters consequential on or connected with the setting up of those Dominions.}}
| {{|National Service Act 1947|public|31|18-07-1947|archived=n|An Act to confine the operation of the National Service Acts to male British subjects and to service in the armed forces of the Crown; to make provision as to the terms and conditions of such service and as to the period for which those Acts shall continue in operation; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Agriculture (Emergency Payments) Act 1947|public|32|18-07-1947|repealed=y|archived=n|An Act to authorise the making out of moneys provided by Parliament of acreage payments in respect of crops grown in the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven on land affected by abnormal flooding; to amend the Hill Farming Act, 1946, as respects subsidy payments for sheep; and to authorise the making of advances in respect of such subsidy payments for the years nineteen hundred and forty-eight and nineteen hundred and forty-nine.|note4= (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39)) }}
| {{|Foreign Marriage Act 1947|public|33|18-07-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to amend the Foreign Marriage Act, 1892 and for purposes connected therewith.}}
| {{|Trafalgar Estates Act 1947|public|34|18-07-1947|archived=n|An Act to terminate the annuity payable to the holder for the time being of the title of Earl Nelson, and to make further provision as to the Trafalgar Estates.}}
| {{|Finance Act 1947|public|35|31-07-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt, the Public Revenue and Savings Banks and to make further provision in connection with Finance.}}
| {{|Education (Exemptions) (Scotland) Act 1947|public|36|31-07-1947|archived=n|An Act to make temporary provision for the exemption of children from attendance at school to enable their employment in ingathering the potato crop.}}
| {{|Northern Ireland Act 1947|public|37|31-07-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to enlarge the legislative power of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in respect of certain matters and, in connection therewith, to remove doubts regarding the validity of certain laws made by that Parliament; to validate the Fire Services (Emergency Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland), 1942; to apply Part III of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1945, to Northern Ireland; to extend section two of the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1945; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Probation Officers (Superannuation) Act 1947|public|38|31-07-1947|archived=n|An Act to make fresh provision with respect to the payment of superannuation allowances and gratuities to or in respect of probation officers and certain former probation officers and to make provision with respect to the payment of such allowances and gratuities to or in respect of clerks appointed to assist probation officers in the performance of their duties.}}
| {{|Statistics of Trade Act 1947|public|39|31-07-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to enable certain government departments to obtain more readily the information necessary for the appreciation of economic trends and for the discharge of their functions; to consolidate and amend the law relating to the census of production; to provide for a census of distribution and other services; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947|public|40|31-07-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to provide for the establishment of development councils to exercise functions for improving or developing the service rendered to the community by industries and for other purposes in relation thereto, for making funds available for certain purposes in relation to industries for which there is no development council, for the disposal of any surplus of funds levied under emergency provision for encouragement of exports, for the making of grants to bodies established for the improvement of design, and for purposes connected therewith and consequential thereon.}}
| {{|Fire Services Act 1947|public|41|31-07-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to make further provision for fire services in Great Britain; to transfer fire-fighting functions from the National Fire Service to fire brigades maintained by the councils of counties and county boroughs; to provide for the combination of areas for fire service purposes; to make further provision for pensions and other awards in respect of persons employed in connection with the provision of fire services; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947|public|42|31-07-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to re-enact in the form in which they apply to Scotland the provisions of the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act, 1946. }}
| {{|Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947|public|43|31-07-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to consolidate with amendments the enactments relating to authorities for the purposes of local government in Scotland.}}
| {{|Crown Proceedings Act 1947|public|44|31-07-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to amend the law relating to the civil liabilities and rights of the Crown and to civil proceedings by and against the Crown, to amend the law relating to the civil liabilities of persons other than the Crown in certain cases involving the affairs or property of the Crown, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Public Offices (Site) Act 1947|public|45|31-07-1947|archived=n|An Act to make provision for the acquisition of a site for public offices in Westminster, to amend the Westminster Hospital Act, 1913, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Wellington Museum Act 1947|public|46|31-07-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to transfer to the Crown Apsley House and the site, forecourt and garden thereof and certain chattels formerly belonging to the first Duke of Wellington; to provide for the use of Apsley House partly as a museum for the preservation and exhibition of the said chattels and other chattels associated with the said first Duke or his times and for other public purposes, and partly as a residence for the Dukes of Wellington; to amend the enactments relating to the Wellington estates, so as to provide for the automatic devolution of the property subject to the trusts thereof whenever there is a change in the person holding office as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer or Speaker of the House of Commons; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Companies Act 1947|public|47|06-08-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to amend the law relating to companies and unit trusts and to dealing in securities, and in connection therewith to amend the law of bankruptcy and the law relating to the registration of business names.}}
| {{|Agriculture Act 1947|public|48|06-08-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to make further provision for agriculture.}}
| {{|Transport Act 1947|public|49|06-08-1947|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to provide for the establishment of a British Transport Commission concerned with transport and certain other related matters, to specify their powers and duties, to provide for the transfer to them of undertakings, parts of undertakings, property, rights, obligations and liabilities, to amend the law relating to transport, inland waterways, harbours and port facilities, to make certain consequential provision as to income tax, to make provision as to pensions and gratuities in the case of certain persons who become officers of the Minister of Transport, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Isle of Man (Customs) Act 1947|public|50|06-08-1947|archived=n|An Act to amend the law with respect to customs in the Isle of Man.}}
| {{|Town and Country Planning Act 1947|public|51|06-08-1947|maintained=y|An Act to make fresh provision for planning the development and use of land, for the grant of permission to develop land and for other powers of control over the use of land; to confer on public authorities additional powers in respect of the acquisition and development of land for planning and other purposes, and to amend the law relating to compensation in respect of the compulsory acquisition of land; to provide for payments out of central funds in respect of depreciation occasioned by planning restrictions; to secure the recovery for the benefit of the community of development charges in respect of certain new development; to provide for the payment of grants out of central funds in respect of expenses of local authorities in connection with the matters aforesaid; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Appropriation Act 1947|public|52|13-08-1947|repealed=y|An Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.|note4= (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (14 Geo. 6. c. 6)) }}
| {{|Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1947|public|53|13-08-1947|maintained=y|An Act to make fresh provision with respect to Scotland for planning the development and use of land, for the grant of permission to develop land and for other powers of control over the use of land; to confer on public authorities additional powers in respect of the acquisition and development of land for planning and other purposes, and to amend the law relating to compensation in respect of the compulsory acquisition of land; to provide for payments out of central funds in respect of depreciation occasioned by planning restrictions; to secure the recovery for the benefit of the community of development charges in respect of certain new development; to provide for the payment of grants out of central funds in respect of expenses of local planning authorities in connection with the matters aforesaid; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Electricity Act 1947|public|54|13-08-1947|maintained=y|An Act to provide for the establishment of a British Electricity Authority and Area Electricity Boards and for the exercise and performance by that Authority and those Boards and the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board of functions relating to the supply of electricity and certain other matters; for the transfer to the said Authority or any such Board as aforesaid of property, rights, obligations and liabilities of electricity undertakers and other bodies; to amend the law relating to the supply of electricity; to make certain consequential provision as to income tax; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Supplies and Services (Extended Purposes) Act 1947|public|55|13-08-1947|repealed=y|An Act to extend the purposes of the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act, 1945.|note4= (Repealed by Emergency Laws (Repeal) Act 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 19)) }}

### Local acts

{{legislationuk|act |- | {{|Forth Road Bridge Order Confirmation Act 1947|local|4|29-04-1947|maintained=y|An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936 relating to Forth Road Bridge.|po1=Forth Road Bridge Order 1947|Provisional Order to provide for the construction and maintenance of a road bridge across the Firth of Forth at Queensferry with approach roads in connection therewith to establish a Joint Board for that purpose to make provision for the abandonment of the existing ferry of the London and North Eastern Railway Company between North Queensferry and South Queensferry and for other purposes.}}
| {{|Cotton Industry War Memorial Trust Act 1947|local|5|21-05-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Havant and Waterloo Urban District Council Act 1947|local|6|18-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Southern Railway Act 1947|local|7|18-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|South Metropolitan Gas Act 1947|local|8|18-07-1947|maintained=y|An Act to confer further powers upon the South Metropolitan Gas Company and for other purposes.}}
| {{|South-West Middlesex Crematorium Act 1947|local|9|18-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Felixstowe Urban District Council Act 1947|local|10|18-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Traction Act 1947|local|11|18-07-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y|An Act to confer further powers upon the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Traction Company and for other purposes.|note4= (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1995 (c. 44)) }}
| {{|Wear Navigation and Sunderland Dock Act 1947|local|12|18-07-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y| |note4= (Repealed by Sunderland Corporation Act 1972 (c. xxiii)) }}
| {{|Swindon Corporation Act 1947|local|13|18-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Luton Corporation Act 1947|local|14|18-07-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y| |note4= (Repealed by Luton Borough Council Act 1985 (c. xi)) }}
| {{|Felixstowe Pier Act 1947|local|15|18-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|London County Council (Money) Act 1947|local|16|18-07-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y| |note4= (Repealed by London County Council (Loans) Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. xxvi)) }}
| {{|Dundee Corporation Order Confirmation Act 1947|local|17|31-07-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y| |note4= (Repealed by Dundee Corporation (Consolidated Powers) Order Confirmation Act 1957 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. iv)) }}
| {{|Inverness Burgh Order Confirmation Act 1947|local|18|31-07-1947|maintained=y|An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936 relating to Inverness Burgh.|po1=Inverness Burgh Order 1947|}}
| {{|Kingston-upon-Hull Provisional Order Confirmation Act 1947|local|19|31-07-1947|maintained=y||po1=Kingston-upon-Hull Order 1947|}}
| {{|Provisional Orders (Marriages) Confirmation Act 1947|local|20|31-07-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y| |note4= (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18))|po1=|po1short=n}}
| {{|Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (Gloucester) Act 1947|local|21|31-07-1947|maintained=y||po1=Gloucester Markets Order 1947|}}
| {{|Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (Tunbridge Wells) Act 1947|local|22|31-07-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y| |note4= (Repealed by County of Kent Act 1981 (c. xviii))|po1=|po1short=n}}
| {{|Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (Leeds) Act 1947|local|23|31-07-1947|maintained=y||po1=Leeds Markets Order 1947|}}
| {{|Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (Torquay) Act 1947|local|24|31-07-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y| |note4= (Repealed by Torbay Corporation Act 1971 (c. xxxiii))|po1=|po1short=n}}
| {{|Brighton Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Order Confirmation Act 1947|local|25|31-07-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y| |note4= (Repealed by East Sussex Act 1981 (c. xxv))|po1=|po1short=n}}
| {{|Mexborough and Swinton Traction (Trolley Vehicles) Order Confirmation Act 1947|local|26|31-07-1947|maintained=y||po1=Mexborough and Swinton Traction Order 1947|}}
| {{|Dudley Corporation Act 1947|local|27|31-07-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y| |note4= (Repealed by Dudley Corporation Act 1969 (c. liii)) }}
| {{|Tendring Hundred Water and Gas Act 1947|local|28|31-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Cheshire and Lancashire County Councils (Runcorn-Widnes Bridge, &c.) Act 1947|local|29|31-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Hove Corporation Act 1947|local|30|31-07-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y| |note4= (Repealed by East Sussex Act 1981 (c. xxv)) }}
| {{|City of London (Tithes) Act 1947|local|31|31-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Sunderland Corporation Act 1947|local|32|31-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Southend-on-Sea Corporation Act 1947|local|33|31-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Helston and Porthleven Water Act 1947|local|34|31-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|London, Midland and Scottish Railway Act 1947|local|35|31-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Nottingham Corporation Act 1947|local|36|31-07-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Paisley Corporation Order Confirmation Act 1947|local|37|06-08-1947|maintained=y|An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936 relating to Paisley Corporation.|po1=Paisley Corporation Order 1947|}}
| {{|National Trust for Scotland Order Confirmation Act 1947|local|38|06-08-1947|maintained=y|An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936 relating to the National Trust for Scotland.|po1=National Trust for Scotland Order 1947|}}
| {{|Nazeing Wood or Park Act 1947|local|39|06-08-1947|maintained=y|An Act to provide for the better regulation and management of a piece of ground called Nazeing Wood or Nazeing Park in the parish of Nazeing in the county of Essex and for other purposes.}}
| {{|Borough of Croydon (Rating) Act 1947|local|40|06-08-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y|An Act to alter the dates as from which amendments of the valuation list of the borough of Croydon in respect of certain hereditaments in that borough shall take effect.|note4= (Repealed by Croydon Corporation Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. xl)) }}
| {{|Tynemouth Corporation Act 1947|local|41|06-08-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|London and North Eastern Railway Act 1947|local|42|06-08-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|North Cumberland Water Board Act 1947|local|43|13-08-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y| |note4= (Repealed by North Cumberland Water Board Order 1958 (SI 1958/442)) }}
| {{|Newhaven and Seaford Sea Defences Act 1947|local|44|13-08-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|Preston Corporation Act 1947|local|45|13-08-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|London County Council (General Powers) Act 1947|local|45|13-08-1947|maintained=y|}}
| {{|London Passenger Transport Act 1947|local|47|13-08-1947|maintained=y|}}

## 11 & 12 Geo. 6

The third session of the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom, which met from 21 October 1947 until 13 September 1948.
This session was also traditionally cited as 11 & 12 G. 6.

### Public general acts

{{legislationuk|act |- | {{|Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1947|public|1|10-12-1947|repealed=y|An Act to continue certain expiring laws.|note4= (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. 5)) }}
| {{|Jersey and Guernsey (Financial Provisions) Act 1947|public|2|10-12-1947|repealed=n|maintained=y|An Act to authorise the payment out of the Consolidated Fund to the States of Jersey and Guernsey of amounts equal to sums received in respect of Crown revenues accruing in those islands.}}
| {{|Burma Independence Act 1947|public|3|10-12-1947|repealed=y|An Act to provide for the independence of Burma as a country not within His Majesty's dominions and not entitled to His Majesty's protection, and for consequential and connected matters.|note4= (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43)) }}
| {{|New Zealand Constitution Amendment Act 1947|public|4|10-12-1947|repealed=y|An Act to provide for the amendment of the Constitution of New Zealand.|note4= (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43)) }}
| {{|Ministers of the Crown (Treasury Secretaries) Act 1947|public|5|10-12-1947|maintained=n|repealed=y|An Act to provide for the salary of an Economic Secretary to the Treasury, and to render the holder of that office capable of being elected to, and of sitting and voting in, the House of Commons.|note4= (Repealed by Ministers of the Crown Act 1964 (c. 98)) }}
| {{|Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1947|public|6|10-12-1947|repealed=y|An Act to increase the sums available for defraying expenses incurred by the Minister of Works under section one of the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act, 1944.|note4= (Repealed by National Loans Act 1968 (c. 13)) }}
| {{|Ceylon Independence Act 1947|note1= renamed to Sri Lanka Independence Act 1947|public|7|10-12-1947|repealed=n|maintained=y|An Act to make provision for, and in connection with, the attainment by Ceylon of fully responsible status within the British Commonwealth of Nations.}}
| {{|Mandated and Trust Territories Act 1947|public|8|10-12-1947|repealed=n|maintained=y|An Act to make provision as to the application and modification of enactments in relation to mandates of the League of Nations and the trusteeship system of the United Nations.}}
| {{|Finance (No. 2) Act 1947|public|9|18-12-1947|An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties and to make certain amendments in the law relating to the Public Revenue.}}
| {{|Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1947|public|10|18-12-1947|repealed=n|maintained=y|An Act to make further provision with respect to the Defence Regulations continued in force by the Emergency Laws (Transitional Provisions) Act, 1946, and with respect to certain emergency and temporary enactments extended by or contained in that Act; to repeal certain other emergency enactments; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.}}
| {{|Medical Practitioners and Pharmacists Act 1947|public|11|18-12-1947|An Act to make provision for the registration as medical practitioners or as pharmacists of certain persons having qualifications other than the United Kingdom qualifications required by the Medical Acts and the Pharmacy Acts, and to repeal certain provisions as to pharmacists in that behalf.}}
| {{|Pensions (Governors of Dominions, &c.) Act 1947|public|12|18-12-1947|repealed=y|An Act to amend the Pensions (Governors of Dominions, &c.) Acts, 1911 to 1936.|note4= (Repealed by Governors' Pensions Act 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. 62)) }}
| {{|Public Works Loans Act 1947|public|13|18-12-1947|repealed=y|An Act to grant money for the purpose of certain local loans out of the Local Loans Fund and for other purposes relating to local loans.|note4= (Repealed by Public Works Loans Act 1964 (c. 9)) }}

### Local acts

{{legislationuk|act |- | {{|Stornoway Harbour Order Confirmation Act 1947|local|1|10-12-1947|maintained=y|An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936 relating to Stornoway Harbour.|po1=Stornoway Harbour Order 1947|Provisional Order to amend the Stornoway Harbour Order 1926 in relation to the constitution of the Stornoway Pier and Harbour Commission and the levying and collection of dues rates and charges to authorise the Commissioners to construct new works and to borrow money and for other purposes.}}
| {{|Edinburgh Merchant Company Widows' Fund (Amendment) Order Confirmation Act 1947|local|2|10-12-1947|maintained=y|repealed=y|An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936 relating to the Edinburgh Merchant Company Widows' Fund.|note4= (Repealed by Edinburgh Merchant Company Order Confirmation Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. xix))|po1=Edinburgh Merchant Company Widows' Fund (Amendment) Order 1947|Provisional Order to amend the provisions of Part III—Widows' Fund—of the Edinburgh Merchant Company Act 1898 relative to the Trustees of the Widows' Fund of the Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh.}}
| {{|Coatbridge Burgh Extension, &c. Order Confirmation Act 1947|local|3|18-12-1947|maintained=y|An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936 relating to Coatbridge Burgh Extension, &c.|po1=Coatbridge Burgh Extension, &c. Order 1947|Provisional Order to extend the municipal and police boundaries of the burgh of Coatbridge in the county of Lanark and for other purposes.}}