Penal Servitude Act 1864

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Penal Servitude Act 1864 [1]
Act of Parliament
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Long title An Act to amend the Penal Servitude Acts.
Citation 27 & 28 Vict. c. 47
Territorial extent  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Dates
Royal assent 25 July 1864
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Amended by

The Penal Servitude Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 47) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act amended the Penal Servitude Act 1853 and the Penal Servitude Act 1857. The act received royal assent on 25 July 1864. [2]

Contents

Provisions

The provisions of the act include:

Timeline

The act had its second reading on 4 March 1864 and gained royal assent on 25 July 1864. [9]

Repeal

Sections 2 and 6 of the Act (giving corporal punishments and arrest without warrant) were repealed by the Penal Servitude Act 1891. [10] [11]

References

  1. Section 1 of this Act provides that it may be cited as the Penal Servitude Act of the year in which it was passed.
  2. 1 2 3 4 A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: Being the Sixth Session of the Eighteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. 1864. p. 197.
  3. D. A. Thomas (1978). "The Penal Equation: Derivations of the penalty structure of English criminal law" (PDF). University of Cambridge. p. 44. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  4. Michael W. Melling (September 1983). "Cleaning House in a Suddenly Closed Society: TheGenesis, Brief Life and Untimely Death of the Habitual Criminals Act, 1869". Osgoode Hall Law Journal . 21 (2): 323. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: Being the Sixth Session of the Eighteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. 1864. p. 198.
  6. M. Heather Tomlinson (2015). Bailey, Victor (ed.). Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain. Routledge. p. 170. ISBN   9781317374893.
  7. 1 2 A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: Being the Sixth Session of the Eighteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. 1864. p. 199.
  8. Justice Committee. "Prisoners (Control of Release) (Scotland) Bill Supplementary written submission from the Law Society of Scotland" (PDF). Scottish Parliament . p. 2.
  9. "SECOND READING. HC Deb 04 March 1864 vol 173 cc1496-525". Hansard . Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  10. "Penal Servitude Act 1891 - Amendment of law as to term of penal servitude and as to sentences of imprisonment". Legislation.gov.uk . Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  11. "Penal Servitude Act 1891 - Amendment of law as to apprehension of licensees and supervisees". Legislation.gov.uk . Retrieved 20 February 2020.