Prevention of Offences Act 1851

The Prevention of Offences Act 1851
Dates
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act for the better Prevention of Offences.
Citation	14 & 15 Vict c 19
Royal assent	3 July 1851
Commencement	3 July 1851^[1]
Text of statute as originally enacted

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

It is still in force in the Republic of Ireland. ^[2]

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.

Section 4

This section was replaced by section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861.^[3]

This section was repealed for England and Wales^[4] by section 10(2) of, and Part III of Schedule 3 to, the Criminal Law Act 1967. It was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 16 of, and the Third Schedule to, the Criminal Law Act, 1997.

Section 6 was replaced, in so far as it related to malicious injuries to property, by section 35 of the Malicious Damage Act 1861.^[5]

Section 11 was repealed by section 119 of, and Part I of Schedule 7 to, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

Sections 12 and 13 were repealed for England and Wales by section 33(3) of, and Part II of Schedule 3 to, the Theft Act 1968.

Section 14 was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 16 of, and the Third Schedule to, the Criminal Law Act, 1997.

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