Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539
The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539, 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.
Subsequent developments
The whole act, except section 19, was repealed by section 1 of, and of the Schedule to, the Statute [Law (Repeals) Act 1969].Section 19 was repealed by section 1 of, and of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989. The Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission had advised that section 19 was "spent".