Trials for Felony Act 1836 explained

Short Title:Trials for Felony Act 1836[1]
Parliament:Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long Title:An Act for enabling Persons indicted of Felony to make their Defence by Counsel or Attorney.
Year:1836
Statute Book Chapter:6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 114
Territorial Extent:England (including Wales and Berwick) and Ireland[2]
Royal Assent:20 August 1836
Repealing Legislation:Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986
Status:Repealed
Original Text:https://books.google.com/books?id=rqwuAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA653#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Trials for Felony Act 1836 (6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 114) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

This act was extended to the Turks and Caicos Islands by the act of the Legislative Council 4 Vic. c. 30 (TC).[3]

This act was repealed in part by the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1848.

The words "and be it further enacted, that" wherever they occurred were repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 57).[4]

In a report dated 27 September 1985, the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission said that section 4 was the only provision that had not been repealed. They said that it was redundant. They recommended that the act be repealed.[5] This Act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Group 1 of Part I of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986.

This act was repealed for Northern Ireland by section 15(2) of, and schedule 2 to, the Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967.

This act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 16 of, and the Third Schedule to, the Criminal Law Act 1997.

Preamble

The preamble was repealed by section 1 of, and part II of the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 51).[6]

Section 1 – All persons tried for felony after 1 October next may make their defence by counsel or attorney

This section was repealed for England and Wales[7] by section 10(2) of, and Part III of Schedule 3 to, the Criminal Law Act 1967.

This section, to "October next" was repealed by section 1 of, and Part II of the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890.

Section 5

This section from "this Act" to "Parliament; and that" was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 35).[8]

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Notes and References

  1. The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896.
  2. The Trials for Felony Act 1836, section 5
  3. Alfred John Duncombe. Laws of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Saunders, Otley and Co. Brook Street, Hanover Square, London. 1862. Page 243.
  4. For a printed copy of the relevant portion of the Schedule, see The Public General Acts passed in the Fifty-First and Fifty-Second Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, p 510.
  5. The Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission. Statute Law Revision: Twelfth Report. Law Com 150. SLC 99. Cmnd 9648. Pages 6 and 34 and 35.
  6. For a printed copy of the relevant portion of the schedule, see The Law Reports, The Public General Statutes, 1879, vol 27, p 409.
  7. The Criminal Law Act 1967, section 11(1)
  8. For a printed copy of the relevant portion of the Schedule, see The Law Reports, The Public General Statutes, 1874, vol 10, p 219

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