| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act for further improving the Administration of Criminal Justice. |
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| Citation | 14 & 15 Vict. c. 100 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 7 August 1851 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amended by | |
| Repealed by | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Revised text of statute as amended | |
The Criminal Procedure Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 100) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was drafted by Charles Sprengel Greaves.[2] Stephen said that compared to earlier legislation on defects in indictments, the Criminal Procedure Act 1851 "went further in the way of removing technicalities, but it did so by an enumeration of them, so technical and minute, that no one could possibly understand it who had not first acquainted himself with all the technicalities which it was meant to abolish."[3]
The whole Act was repealed by Part I of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986.
- ^ The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised in the Republic of Ireland by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is authorised in the United Kingdom by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
- ^ (1851) 15 Law Magazine (New Series) 226; (1851) 15 Jurist 361; (1948) 63 British Columbia Reports 49 [1]; (1946) 86 Canadian Criminal Cases Annotated 340 [2]; Law Reform Commission of Canada, The Charge Document in Criminal Cases (1987) p 8 [3].
- ^ Stephen, J F. History of the Criminal Law of England. 1883. Volume 1. Page 285.