Acts of Union 1707

Union with England Act 1707^[d]
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of Scotland
Long title	Act Ratifying and Approving the Treaty of Union of the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England.
Citation	1707 c. 7
Territorial extent	Kingdom of Scotland
Dates
Royal assent	16 January 1707
Commencement	1 May 1707
Other legislation
Amended by	Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1906; Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1964; Criminal Justice Act 1948; Peerage Act 1963; Scotland Act 1998;
Status: Current legislation
Text of the Union with England Act 1707 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

Union with Scotland Act 1706^[a]
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of England
Long title	An Act for a Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland.
Citation	6 Ann. c. 11; (Ruffhead: 5 Ann. c. 8)
Territorial extent	Kingdom of England
Dates
Royal assent	6 March 1707
Commencement	1 May 1707
Other legislation
Amended by	Statute Law Revision Act 1867; Promissory Oaths Act 1871; Weights and Measures Act 1878; Statute Law Revision Act 1948; Peerage Act 1963; Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973; Scotland Act 1998;
Relates to	Exchequer Court (Scotland) Act 1707
Status: Amended
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended
Text of the Union with Scotland Act 1706 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The Acts of Union^[e] refer to two acts of Parliament, one by the Parliament of Scotland in March 1707, followed shortly thereafter by an equivalent act of the Parliament of England. They put into effect the international Treaty of Union agreed on 22 July 1706, which politically joined the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into a single "political state", the Kingdom of Great Britain, with Queen Anne as sovereign of both Kingdoms. The English and Scottish acts of ratification took effect on 1 May 1707, creating the new kingdom, with its parliament based in the Palace of Westminster.

The two countries had shared a monarch since the "personal" Union of the Crowns in 1603, when James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his cousin Elizabeth I to become (in addition) 'James I of England', styled James VI and I. Attempts had been made to try to unite the two separate countries, in 1606, 1667, and in 1689 (following the 1688 Dutch invasion of England, and subsequent deposition of James II of England by his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange), but it was not until the early 18th century that both nations via separate groups of English and Scots Royal Commissioners and their respective political establishments, "though not the Scots people",^{[citation needed]} came to support the idea of an international "Treaty of political, monetary and trade Union", albeit for different reasons.

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^ Pickering, Danby, ed. (1794). "CAP. XIII An act to prevent acts of parliament from taking effect from a time prior to the passing thereof". The Statutes at Large : Anno tricesimo tertio George III Regis. Vol. XXXIX. Cambridge. pp. 32, 33. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 29 January 2021. (33 Geo. 3. c. 13: "Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793")

[2] Pickering, Danby, ed. (1794). "CAP. XIII An act to prevent acts of parliament from taking effect from a time prior to the passing thereof". The Statutes at Large : Anno tricesimo tertio George III Regis. Vol. XXXIX. Cambridge. pp. 32, 33. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 29 January 2021. (33 Geo. 3. c. 13: "Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793")

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