Is it illegal to stand within 100 yards of the reigning monarch without wearing socks?

From the Law Commission, spotted via Twitter:

Legal Curiosities: Fact or Fable?

This informal document has been produced by the Law Commission’s Statute Law Repeals team to answer some of the queries that they regularly receive about alleged old laws ...

Includes -

- is it illegal to stand within 100 yards of the reigning monarch without wearing socks?
- is it illegal to impersonate a Chelsea Pensioner?
- is it illegal to carry a plank along a pavement?

http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/app/uploads/2015/03/Legal_Oddities.pdf

“In Liverpool, it is illegal for a
woman to be topless in public,
except as a clerk in a tropical
fish store.
No evidence We can find no trace of such a
statute, and Liverpool County Council
deny that it ever existed.”

Bloody Hell!

No wonder you can’t move here in Liverpool for topless women.

That wasn’t me handling salmon in suspicious circumstances.

Move along.