Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861

Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861[1]
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to repeal certain Enactments which have been consolidated in several Acts of the present Session relating to indictable Offences and other Matters.[2]
Citation24 & 25 Vict. c. 95
Introduced bySir John Coleridge MP (Commons)
Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury (Lords)
Territorial extent 
Dates
Royal assent6 August 1861
Commencement1 November 1861[a]
Repealed23 May 1950
Other legislation
AmendsSee § Repealed acts
Repeals/revokesSee § Repealed acts
Repealed byStatute Law Revision Act 1950
Relates to
Status: Repealed
History of passage through Parliament
Records of Parliamentary debate relating to the statute from Hansard
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 95) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed for England and Wales and Ireland statutes relating to the English criminal law from 1634 to 1860. The Act was intended, in particular, to facilitate the preparation of a revised edition of the statutes.

The Act was one of the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861, which consolidated, repealed and replaced a large number of existing statutes.

  1. ^ Current Law Statutes Annotated. Vol. 4. London and Edinburgh: Sweet & Maxwell and W. Green. 1994. Alphabetical Table of Statutes. p. 43.
  2. ^ Rickards, George Kettilby (1861). The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 24 & 25 Victoria, 1861. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen. p. 321.


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