Making of Bread, etc. Act 1800
The Making of Bread Act 1800, also called the Making of Bread, etc. Act 1800, popularly named the Brown Bread Act or the Poison Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that prohibited millers from producing any flour other than wholemeal flour.
| Act of Parliament | |
| Long title | An Act to prevent, until the sixth Day of November one thousand eight hundred and one, and from thence to the End of six Weeks from the Commencement of the then next Session of Parliament, the manufacturing of any Fine Flour from Wheat, or other Grain, and the making of any Bread solely from the Fine Flour of Wheat; and to repeal an Act, passed in the thirty-sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for permitting Bakers to make and sell certain Sorts of Bread, and to make more effectual Provision for the same. |
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| Citation | 41 Geo. 3. (G.B.) c. 16 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 24 March 1801 |
| Commencement | 24 March 1801 |
| Repealed | 24 February 1801 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | Use of Fine Flour (No. 2) Act 1801 |
Status: Repealed | |
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