Acts of Parliament of the 2023-24 Session


24 Bills received Royal Assent

These Bills are enacted into law as Acts of Parliament following completion of the Bill Process.
Acts of Parliament come into effect at midnight following Royal Assent, unless a date is specified within the Act.

A Bill to Prohibit the export of certain livestock from Great Britain for slaughter.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th May 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 8th November 2023

A Bill to regulate the use of automated vehicles on roads and in other public places; and to make other provision in relation to vehicle automation.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th May 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 28th November 2022
- Private Bill

A Bill to confer powers upon Bishop's Stortford Town Council to extinguish rights of burial and disturb human remains in Bishop Stortford's New Cemetery and Old Cemetery for the purpose of increasing the space for interments; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th March 2024 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision for Irish citizens who have been resident in the United Kingdom for five years to be entitled to British citizenship; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision about the funding of building societies and the assimilation of the law relating to companies and the law relating to building societies.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to provide for the regulation of competition in digital markets; to amend the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002 and to make other provision about competition law; to make provision relating to the protection of consumer rights and to confer further such rights; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 13th March 2024

A Bill to make provision in connection with finance.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2023

A Bill to make provision in connection with finance.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 22nd February 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 8th November 2023

A Bill to amend the Investigatory Powers Act 2016; to make provision about information supplied by, or relating to, the Judicial Commissioners; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2024 and was enacted into law.


A bill to prohibit the grant or assignment of certain new long residential leases of houses, to amend the rights of tenants under long residential leases to acquire the freeholds of their houses, to extend the leases of their houses or flats, and to collectively enfranchise or manage the buildings containing their flats, to give such tenants the right to reduce the rent payable under their leases to a peppercorn, to regulate the relationship between residential landlords and tenants, to regulate residential estate management, to regulate rentcharges and to amend the Building Safety Act 2022 in connection with the remediation of building defects and the insolvency of persons who have repairing obligations relating to certain kinds of buildings.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 8th November 2023

A Bill to Make provision about public service television; about the sustainability of, and programme-making by, C4C; about the name, remit, powers, governance and audit of S4C; about the regulation of television selection services; about the regulation of on-demand programme services; about the regulation of radio services; about the regulation of radio selection services; for the repeal of section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013; for addressing deficiencies in broadcasting legislation arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 23rd November 2023

A Bill to make provision for and in connection with reducing the main rates of primary Class 1 national insurance contributions and Class 4 national insurance contributions, and removing the requirement to pay Class 2 national insurance contributions.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 13th December 2023 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 7th March 2024

A Bill to make provision for and in connection with reducing the main rates of primary Class 1 national insurance contributions and Class 4 national insurance contributions.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th March 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 24th January 2024

A Bill to make provision to extend the period following the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 5 May 2022 during which Ministers may be appointed.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th January 2024 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision about paternity leave in cases where a mother, or a person with whom a child is placed or expected to be placed for adoption, dies.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 8th November 2023

A Bill to make provision for regulating pedicabs in public places in Greater London; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2024 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to create offences of dog abduction and cat abduction and to confer a power to make corresponding provision relating to the abduction of other animals commonly kept as pets.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to provide for the payment out of money provided by Parliament of expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State under, or in connection with, schemes or other arrangements to compensate persons affected by the Horizon system and in respect of other matters identified in legal proceedings relating to the Horizon system.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th January 2024 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to provide for the quashing of convictions in England and Wales and Northern Ireland for certain offences alleged to have been committed while the Horizon system was in use by the Post Office; to make provision about the deletion of cautions given in England and Wales or Northern Ireland for such offences; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 7th December 2023

Make provision about the removal of certain migrants to the Republic of Rwanda.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 14th March 2024

A Bill to authorise the use of resources for the years ending with 31 March 2023, 31 March 2024 and 31 March 2025; to authorise the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund for those years; and to appropriate the supply authorised by this Act for the years ending with 31 March 2023 and 31 March 2024.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th March 2024 and was enacted into law.


A Bill To Enable the implementation of, and the making of other provision in connection with, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th March 2024 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 29th March 2023

A Bill to make provision about victims of criminal conduct and others affected by criminal conduct; about the appointment and functions of advocates for victims of major incidents; about the release of prisoners; about the membership and functions of the Parole Board; to prohibit certain prisoners from forming a marriage or civil partnership; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to amend the Crown Estate Act 1961 to increase the maximum term of the lease that may be granted to the Zoological Society of London in respect of land in Regent’s Park.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 and was enacted into law.