Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861 Explained

Type:	Act
Parliament:	Parliament of the United Kingdom
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]
Year:	1861
Statute Book Chapter:	24 & 25 Vict. c. 95
Royal Assent:	6 August 1861
Repealing Legislation:	Statute Law Revision Act 1950
Status:	Repealed

The Act 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This Act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1950.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This Act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by sections 2(1) and 3(1) of, and Part 4 of Schedule 2 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007.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. Unlike the others, it received no official short title from the Short Titles Act 1896. 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", according to George Oke.^[4]

References

• Halsbury's Statutes,
• 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 to 334.
• A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1861. Queen's Printer. East Harding Street, London. 1861. Pages 454 to 467. https://books.google.com/books?id=dKlKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA454 from Google Books.
• James Edward Davis. . Butterworths. 1861. Pages v to xviii (introduction) and pp. 7 to 19 (complete annotated text of the Act) (from Google Books).
• Greaves, The Criminal Law Consolidation and Amendment Acts. Second Edition. V R Stevens, Sons, Haynes, H Sweet and W Maxwell. London. 1862. Pages 349 to 367 (complete annotated text of the Act).
• Francis Towers Streeten and Edward Alfred Hadley. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Reported and Published from Trinity Term 1860 to Michaelmas Term 1865, and contained in the Law Journal Reports, and other contemporary Reports; with References to Statutes Passed within the Same Period. Edward Bret Ince. London. 1868. Page 579 et seq.

External links

• List of amendments and repeals in the Republic of Ireland from the Irish Statute Book.

Notes and References

1. Book: Rickards, George Kettilby . The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 24 & 25 Victoria, 1861 . Eyre and Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen . London . 1861 . 321.
2. Book: . Sweet & Maxwell and W. Green . London and Edinburgh . 1994 . 4 . Alphabetical Table of Statutes. p. 43.
3. Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes. 4th ed. London: Queen's Printers. 1878. p. 297.
4. Book: Oke, George Colwell . The Magisterial Synopsis . supplement to the 7th . Butterworths . London . 1861 . p. 1 note (b).