Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1829 c. 34 |
(10 Geo. 4) C A P. XXXIV.
[4th June 1829]
'WHEREAS an Act was passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled Englandrelative to Offences against the Person; and it is expedient that Provision should be made in Ireland for the like Purposes, and that the Statutes now in Force in Ireland relating to such Offences should be repealed, and that the Provisions thereof should be consolidated and amended;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That this present Act, and the several Mattersherein contained, shall extend toIreland , and not to England , Wales , or Scotland; and that this Act shall commence and take effect in Ireland on the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; and that the several Statutes and Acts, and Parts of Statutes and Acts, hereinafter next mentioned, shall continue in Force in Ireland until and throughout the said First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and no longer; and that from and after the said First DayofSeptember One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the several Statutes and Acts, and Parts of Statutes and Acts, hereinafter next mentioned, specified, and set forth, shall cease and determine, and shall be repealed (except only so far as is hereinafter expressed and provided for); that is to say, the several Statutes and Acts, and Parts of Statutes and Acts, passed in the Parliament of England , hereinafter specified and set forth, and which, by an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the TenthYear of the Reign of KingHenry the Seventh, intituled An Act confirming all the Statutes made in England, are in Force in Ireland; namely, so much of the Great Charter made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Third, as relates to Inquisitions of Life or Member; and so much of a Statute made in the Fifty-second Year of the same Reign, as relates to Murder; and so much of a Statutemade in the Third Year of the Reign of KingEdward the First, as relates to Inquests of Murder, and the Writof Odio et ati, and to any Person ravishing or taking away by Force any Female as therein mentioned; and so much of a Statute made in the Fourth Year of the same Reign, intituled , as relates to Bigamists; and so much of a Statute made in the Sixth Year of the same Reign, as relates to any Person killing another by Misfortune, or in his own Defence, or in other Manner without Felony; and so much of a Statute made atWestminster in the Thirteenth Year of the same Reign, as relates to the Writ of Odio et ati and to Rape; and so much of a Statute made in the Ninth Year of the Reignof KingEdward the Second, commonly called Articuli Cleri , as relates to laying violent Hands on a Clerk; and so much of a Statute made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Third, as relates to Bigamists; and so much of a Statute made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the same Reign, as relates to Petit Treason; and so much of a Statute made in the Fiftieth Year of the same Reign, as relates to the Arrest of Persons of Holy Church; and so much of an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of KingRichard the Second, as relates to the like Arrests; and so much of a Statute made in the Sixth Yearof the same Reign, as relates to Ravishers and to Women ravished; and so much of a Statute made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Fourth, as relates to cutting the Tonguesor putting out the Eyes of any of the King's liege People, and to any Assault upon the Servant of a Knightof the Shire in Parliament; and so much of a Statute made in the Second Year of the Reign of King the Fifth, as relates to Persons fleeing for Murders, Manslaughters, Robberies, and Batteries; and so much of a Statute made in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of KingHenry the Sixth, as relates to any Assault or Affraymade to any Lord, Knight of the Shire, Citizen, or Burgess being and attending at the Parliamentor other Council of the King, and an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of KingHenry the Seventh, intituled ; and an Act passed in the same Year, intituled ; and also the following Statutes and Acts, and Parts of Statutes and Acts, passed in the Parliament ofIreland; (that is to say,) an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Yearof the Reign of KingHenry the Sixth, intituled ; and also an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of KingEdward the Fourth, intituled and so much of an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of KingHenry the Seventh, intituled , as relates to the Payment of any Assault or Amends; and an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of QueenElizabeth , intituled and an Act passed in the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Years of the Reign of KingJames the First, intituled and an Act passed in the Second Session of the Tenth Year of the Reign of KingCharles the First, intituled and an Act passed in the same Year of the same Reign, intituled and an Act passed in the Third Session of the same Year, intituled and an Act passed in the Fifteenth Year of the same Reign, intituled and an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of KingWilliam the Third, intituled and an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of QueenAnne , intituled and so much of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the same Reign, intituled , as relates to the Offence of having carnal Knowledge of any Female Child; and so much of an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the First, intituled , as relates to the Offence of Bigamy; and an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the Second, intituled and so much of an Act passed in the Nineteenth Year of the same Reign, intituled as relates to any Offenders thereby declared to be Felons; and so much of an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the Third, intituled , as relates to any Person who shall beat, wound, or use any other Violence to any Person or Driver, and so much thereof as makes any Second such Offence Felony, and an Act passed in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of the Reign of KingGeorge the Third, intituled and so much of an Act passed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the same Reign, intituled , as relates to any maiming or wounding, or to the Offence of horsing, colting, carrying in Procession, or endangering the Life of any Person; and so much of an Act passed in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of the same Reign, intituled , as relates to any Assault, beating, or wounding, and an Act passed in the Thirty-first Year of the same Reign, intituled Henrythe Seventh, intituled ' An Act to make Murder of Malice prepensed Treason,'and for repealing an Act made in the Ninth Year of Queen Anne, intituled 'An Act for bringing an Appeal in case of Murder, notwithstanding the Statute of King Henry the Seventh, whereby Murder is made High Treason,' save so much thereof as relates to Rescues or Attempts to rescue; and an Act passed in the Thirty-Sixth Year of the same Reign, intituled and so much of an Act passed in the same Year, intituled , as relates to Petit Treason; and an Act passed in the Thirty-eighth Year of the same Reign, intituled and also the following Statutesand Acts, and Parts of Statutes and Acts, made in the Parliament of the United Kingdom; that is to say, an Act passed in the Forty-third Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the Third, intituled Englandin the Twenty-first Year of the late King James the First, intituled 'An Act to prevent the destroying and murdering of Bastard Children,' and also an Act made in Ireland in the Sixth Year of the Reign of the late Queen Anne, also intituled 'An Act to prevent the destroying and murdering of Bastard Children,' and for making other Provisions in lieu thereof; and an Act passed in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled and an Act passed in the same Year, intituled Ireland (save only so far as the said Act relates to Proceedings by Civil Bill); and an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the same Reign, to amend the said last-mentioned Act; and so much of an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled , as refers to the Act of the Forty-third Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the Third, herein-before mentioned; and so much of an Act passed in the First and Second Years of the present Reign, intituled , as relates to the Offences of assaulting, beating, and wounding therein mentioned; and an Act passed in the Third Year of the present Reign, intituled and so much of an Act passed in the seventh Year of the present Reign, intituled Irelandwith hard Labour , as relates to any Assault; and the several herein-before recited Statutes and Acts, and Parts of Statutes and Acts, are hereby repealed accordingly, so far as relates to Ireland , and to Offences committed within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of Ireland; save and except so far as any of the said Statutes and Acts, or Parts of Statutes and Acts respectively, or any of them, may repeal the Whole or any Part of any other Act or Acts; and save and except as to Offences committed before or upon the said First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, which shall be dealt with and punished as if this Act had not been passed.
II All continuing Acts repealed.
II. And be it further enacted, That all Acts and Parts of Acts continuing or perpetuating any of the Statutes or Acts, or Parts of Statutes or Acts, herein-before repealed, so far only as relates to such Continuation or Perpetuation, from and after the said First Day ofSeptember One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, shall be...
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