The Prevention of Offences Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict c 19) is an Act

Act of Parliament

An Act of Parliament is a statute enacted as primary legislation by a national or sub-national parliament. In the Republic of Ireland the term Act of the Oireachtas is used, and in the United States the term Act of Congress is used.In Commonwealth countries, the term is used both in a narrow...

 of the Parliament

Parliament

A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French , the action of parler : a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which...

 of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

.

It is still in force in the Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

.
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

Statute Law Revision Act 2007

The Statute Law Revision Act 2007 was an Act of the Oireachtas of the Republic of Ireland which repealed a large amount of pre-1922 legislation of Ireland, England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom while preserving a shorter list of statutes.-Scope:...

. There is a saving for this Act in section 2(2)(b) of the Statute Law Revision Act 2009

Statute Law Revision Act 2009

The Statute Law Revision Act 2009 is a Statute Law Revision Act enacted by the Oireachtas in Ireland to review Local and Personal Acts passed prior to 1850 and Private Acts passed prior to 1750...

.

The Act was repealed for England and Wales

England and Wales

England and Wales is a jurisdiction within the United Kingdom. It consists of England and Wales, two of the four countries of the United Kingdom...

 and Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

 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

Offences Against The Person Act 1861

The Offences against the Person Act 1861 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It consolidated provisions related to offences against the person from a number of earlier statutes into a single Act...

.

Section 5

This section was repealed for England and Wales by
section 10(2) of, and Part III of Schedule 3 to, the Criminal Law Act 1967

Criminal Law Act 1967

The Criminal Law Act 1967 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. However, with some minor exceptions, it generally applies to only England and Wales. It made some major changes to English criminal law...

. 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

Malicious Damage Act 1861

The Malicious Damage Act 1861 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . It consolidated provisions related to malicious damage from a number of earlier statutes into a single Act...

.

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

Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is an Act of Parliament which instituted a legislative framework for the powers of police officers in England and Wales to combat crime, as well as providing codes of practice for the exercise of those powers. Part VI of PACE required the Home Secretary...

.

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

Theft Act 1968

The Theft Act 1968 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It creates a number of offences against property in England and Wales.On 15 January 2007 the Fraud Act 2006 came into force, redefining most of the offences of deception.-History:...

.

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

• http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1851/feb/24/minutes (first reading)
• http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1851/mar/14/prevention-of-offences-bill (second reading)
• http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1851/may/30/minutes (third reading)
• http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1851/jun/04/minutes (first reading)
• http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1851/jun/13/minutes (second reading)
• http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1851/jun/24/minutes (third reading)
• http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1851/jun/27/prevention-of-offences-bill
• http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1851/jul/03/minutes (royal assent)

External links

• The Prevention of Offences Act 1851, as enacted, from Google Book Search
  Google Book Search
  Google Books is a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database. The service was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October...
  
  .