Offences Against the Person Act

Offences Against the Person Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom, in the Republic of Ireland, in Hong Kong, in New Zealand, in Tasmania, in Jamaica, and in Antigua and Barbuda, relating to offences against the person. It seems to have been derived from the long title of the Act which has come to be known as the Offences Against the Person Act 1828. It is sometimes abbreviated to OAPA, as in "OAPA 1861".

The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Offences Against the Person Bill during its passage through Parliament.

"Offences Against the Person Acts" may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to offences against the person. It is not a term of art.

List

Colony of Antigua and Barbuda
  • The Offences Against the Person (Amendment) Act, 1982[1]

Colony of Jamaica
  • The Offences Against the Person Act, 1864[2]

British Hong Kong
  • The Offences against the Person Ordinance 1865 (No. 2)[3]
  • The Offences against the Person (Amendment) Ordinance 1913[3]
  • The Offences against the Person (Amendment) Ordinance 1982,[4] CAP 212[5]

The Offences against the Person Ordinances 1865 and 1913 is the collective title of the Offences against the Person Ordinance 1865 and the Offences against the Person (Amendment) Ordinance 1913.[3]

Colony of New Zealand
  • The Offences against the Person Act 1866 (30 Vict No 19)[6][7]
  • The Offences against the Person Act 1867 (31 Vict 1867 No 5)[8][9]
  • The Offences against the Person Act Amendment Act 1868 (32 Vict No 20)[10][11]
  • The Offences against the Person Act Amendment Act 1868 (38 Vict 1874 No 4) which repealed and replaced the provisions of the Offences against the Person Act Amendment Act 1868 (32 Vict No 20).[12]
  • The Offences against the Person Act 1889 (53 Vict 1889 No 17)[13]

The third schedule of the Criminal Code Act 1893 (57 Vict 1893 No 56) repealed and replaced the provisions in these acts as well as the English parliament's Offences against the Person Act 1866 (14 and 15 Vict.,c.100), along with other English and New Zealand legislation.[14]

Republic of Ireland

Colony of Tasmania
  • The Offences against the Person Act 1885[15]
  • The Offences against the Person Act 1899[16]

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

See also
List of short titles

References
  1. Laws of Antigua and Barbuda. U.S. Government Printing Office. p 39.
  2. Global Criminalisation Scan (17 August 2020). "Offences Against the Person Act 1864" (PDF).
  3. (1913) 59 Hong Kong Government Gazette: Supplement 156
  4. (1982) Hong Kong Government Gazette, Legal Supplement No 1, p A-127
  5. CAP 212 Offences Against the Person Ordinance
  6. Statutes of New Zealand. Sir George Grey, Governor. Wellington. 1866. Page 83 et seq.
  7. "Offences Against the Person Act 1866 (30 Victoriae 1866 No 19)". www.nzlii.org. New Zealand Legal Information Institute. 8 October 1866. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  8. Alexander James Johnston. The New Zealand Justice of the Peace, Resident Magistrate, Coronor, and Constable. Second Edition. George Didsbury, Government Printer. Wellington. 1870. Volume 2. Page 196.
  9. "Offences against the Person Act 1867 (31 Victoriae 1867 No 5)". www.nzlii.org. New Zealand Legal Information Institute. 10 October 1867. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  10. Statutes of New Zealand. Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor. Wellington. 1868. Pages 127 and 128.
  11. "Offences against the Person Act Amendment Act 1868 (32 Victoriae 1868 No 20)". www.nzlii.org. New Zealand Legal Information Institute. 15 October 1868. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  12. "Offences against the Person Act Amendment Act 1874 (38 Victoriae 1874 No 4)". www.nzlii.org. New Zealand Legal Information Institute. 13 August 1874. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  13. "Offences against the Person Act 1889 (53 Vict 1889 No 17)". www.nzlii.org. New Zealand Legal Information Institute. 16 September 1889. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  14. "Criminal Code Act 1893 (57 Vict 1893 No 56)". www.nzlii.org. New Zealand Legal Information Institute. 6 October 1893. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  15. Statutes of Tasmania: 1826-1901. Government Printer. 1902. p 621.
  16. Statutes of Tasmania: 1826-1901. Government Printer. 1902. p 625.
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