Prevention of Offences Act 1851

The Prevention of Offences Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 19) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Prevention of Offences Act 1851[1]
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act for the better Prevention of Offences.
Citation14 & 15 Vict. c. 19
Dates
Royal assent3 July 1851
Commencement3 July 1851[2]
Text of statute as originally enacted

It is still in force in the Republic of Ireland.[3]

It was retained for the Republic of Ireland by section 2(2)(a) of, and Part 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007. There is a saving for this Act in section 2(2)(b) of the Statute Law Revision Act 2009.

The Act was repealed for England and Wales and Northern Ireland by section 1(1) of, and Group 5 of Part I of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989.

Section 4

This section was replaced by section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861.[4]

Section 5

This section was repealed for England and Wales[5] by section 10(2) of, and Part III of Schedule 3 to, the Criminal Law Act 1967. It was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 16 of, and the Third Schedule to, the Criminal Law Act, 1997.

Sections 6 to 14

Section 6 was replaced, in so far as it related to malicious injuries to property, by section 35 of the Malicious Damage Act 1861.[6]

Section 11 was repealed by section 119 of, and Part I of Schedule 7 to, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

Sections 12 and 13 were repealed for England and Wales by section 33(3) of, and Part II of Schedule 3 to, the Theft Act 1968.

Section 14 was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 16 of, and the Third Schedule to, the Criminal Law Act, 1997.

Parliamentary debates
  • (first reading)
  • (second reading)
  • (third reading)
  • (first reading)
  • (second reading)
  • (third reading)
  • (royal assent)

References
  1. The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. This Act came into force on the date on which it received royal assent because no other date was specified: Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793
  3. "Irish Statute Book".
  4. James Edward Davis, The Criminal Law Consolidation Statutes of the 24 & 25 of Victoria, Chapters 94 to 100: Edited with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Butterworths, 1861, p 255
  5. The Criminal Law Act 1967, section 11(1)
  6. James Edward Davis, The Criminal Law Consolidation Statutes of the 24 & 25 of Victoria, Butterworths, 1861, p. 145
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