Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539

Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Acte for dissolucion of the Abbeys.
Citation31 Hen. 8. c. 13
Territorial extent England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent28 June 1539
Commencement28 April 1539
Repealed16 November 1989
Other legislation
Amended byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1969
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1989
Relates toSuppression of Religious Houses Act 1535
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539 (31 Hen. 8. c. 13), sometimes referred to as the Second Act of Dissolution or as the Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries, 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).