Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861

Long title An Act to repeal certain Enactments which have been consolidated in several Acts of the present Session relating to indictable Offences and other Matters.[1]
Citation 24 & 25 Vict c 95
Dates
Royal assent 6 August 1861
Status: Repealed

The 24 & 25 Vict c 95, sometimes referred to as the Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861,[2] was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

This Act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1950. It was spent.[3]

This Act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by sections 2(1) and 3(1) of, and Part 4 of Schedule 2 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007.

This Act was one of the criminal law consolidation Acts 1861. It effected repeals consequential on the other six Acts.

It "should have been the last Act of the series to receive the Royal Assent, and have been numbered accordingly."[4]

References

  1. George Kettilby Rickards. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 24 & 25 Victoria, 1861. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen. London. 1861. Pages 321.
  2. Current Law Statutes Annotated 1993. Sweet & Maxwell. London. W Green. Edinburgh. 1994. Volume 4. Alphabetical Table of Statutes. Page 43.
  3. Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes. Fourth Edition. Queen's Printers. London. 1878. Page 297.
  4. George Colwell Oke. The Magisterial Synopsis. Supplement to the Seventh Edition. Butterworths. London. 1861. Page 1, note (b).

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