Punishment of Burning in the Hand Act 1799

Punishment of Burning in the Hand Act 1799

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for making perpetual so much of an Act made in the nineteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-four, videlicet, on the twenty-sixth Day of November on thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend the Laws relating to the Transportation, Imprisonment, and other Punishment of certain Offenders," as relates to the Punishment of burning in the Hand of certain Persons convicted of Felony with the Benefit of Clergy.
Citation	39 Geo. 3. c. 45
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	20 May 1799
Commencement	20 May 1799 [a]
Repealed	6 August 1861
Other legislation
Amends	Transportation, etc. Act 1779
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1861
Relates to	Transportation, etc. Act 1784 Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1788
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Punishment of Burning in the Hand Act 1799 (39 Geo. 3. c. 45) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. ^[1] It continued and made perpetual an act from 20 years earlier, the Transportation, etc. Act 1779 (19 Geo. 3. c. 74), that provided for such punishment for felons who were convicted within benefit of clergy.

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 101).

Notes

1. The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.

References

1. Mark Baskett, and by the assigns of Robert Baskett, and by Henry Woodfall and William Strahan (1800). The Statutes at Large: From Magna Carta, to the End of the Last Parliament. p. 112.