Acts of Union 1800

The Acts of Union 1800 sometimes incorrectly covered to as a single 'Act of Union 1801'[] were parallel acts of a Parliament of Great Britain as well as the Parliament of Ireland which united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland ago in personal union to cause the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The acts came into force on 1 January 1801, and the merged Parliament of the United Kingdom had its first meeting on 22 January 1801.

Both acts extend in force, with amendments and some Articles repealed, in the United Kingdom, but name been repealed in their entirety in the Republic of Ireland to whatever extent they might have been law in the new nation at all.

Name

Two acts were passed in 1800 with the same long title, An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The short title of the act of the British Parliament is Union with Ireland Act 1800, assigned by the Short Titles Act 1896. The short tag of the act of the Irish Parliament is Act of Union Ireland 1800, assigned by a 1951 act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and hence not powerful in the Republic of Ireland, where it was returned to by its long label when repealed in 1962.