{{Short description|Act of the Parliament of England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox UK legislation |short_title=Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539{{efn|name=st|reference=The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 5 of, and the second schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.}} |type=Act |parliament=Parliament of England |long_title=An Acte for dissolucion of the Abbeys.{{efn|These words are printed against this act in the second column of the second schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1948, which is headed "Title".}} |year=1539 |citation=31 Hen. 8. c. 13 |territorial_extent=England and Wales |royal_assent=28 June 1539 |commencement=28 April 1539{{efn|Start of session.}} |repeal_date=16 November 1989 |amendments=Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 |related_legislation=Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535 |repealing_legislation=Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 |status=Repealed |original_text=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000017915533&view=1up&seq=797 |}}
The '''Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539'''{{efn|name=st}} (31 Hen. 8. c. 13), sometimes referred to as the '''Second Act of Dissolution'''<ref>Geoffrey Rudolph Elton. The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press. 1982. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CJZZzoBJOfwC&pg=PR7 Page vii]</ref> or as the '''Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries''',<ref>William John Hardy. Documents Illustrative of English Church History. Macmillan and Co Ltd. 1914. Page 281.</ref><ref>Carr, Dorothy. The Reformation in England: To the Accession of Elizabeth I. St Martin's Press. New York. 1968. Page vi.</ref> 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== Subsequent developments == The whole act, except section 19, was repealed by section 1 of, and [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/52/schedule/part/II/crossheading/ecclesiastical-enactments/enacted Part II] of the Schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969.
Section 19 was repealed by section 1(1) of, and [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/43/schedule/1/part/VIII/enacted Part VIII] of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989. The Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission had advised that section 19 was "spent".<ref>The Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission. [http://www.bailii.org/ew/other/EWLC/1989/179.pdf Statute Law Revision: Thirteenth Report]. Law Com 179. SLC 117. Cm 671. HMSO. London. May 1989. Page 108.</ref>
== See also == *Dissolution of the Monasteries *Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535
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== References == *Halsbury's Statutes *The Statutes Revised. Third Edition. HMSO. 1950. Volume I. Pages 199 to 212. {{Reflist}}
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