Abettors in
Misdemeanors.

As to Offences committed within the

Jurisdiction of the Admiralty.

Act not to extend to Scotland.

Commence

ment of Act.

try the principal Felony or any Felonies committed in any County or Place in which such Person shall be apprehended or be in Custody, whether the principal Felony shall have been committed on the Sea or on the Land, or begun on the Sea and completed on the Land, or begun on the Land and completed on the Sea, and whether within Her Majesty's Dominions or without, or partly within Her Majesty's Dominions and partly without; provided that no Person who shall be once duly tried either as an Accessory before or after the Fact, or for a substantive Felony under the Provisions herein-before contained, shall be liable to be afterwards prosecuted for the same Offence.

As to Abettors in Misdemeanors :

the

8. Whosoever shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure Commission of any Misdemeanor, whether the same be a Misdemeanor at Common Law or by virtue of any Act passed or to be passed, shall be liable to be tried, indicted, and punished as a principal Offender.

As to other Matters:

9. Where any Person shall, within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England or Ireland, become an Accessory to any Felony, whether the same be a Felony at Common Law or by virtue of any Act passed or to be passed, and whether such Felony shall be committed within that Jurisdiction or elsewhere, or shall be begun within that Jurisdiction and completed elsewhere, or shall be begun elsewhere and completed within that Jurisdiction, the Offence of such Person shall be Felony; and in any Indictment for any such Offence the Venue in the Margin shall be the same as if the Offence had been committed in the County or Place in which such Person shall be indicted, and his Offence shall be averred to have been committed "on the High Seas;" provided that nothing herein contained shall alter or affect any of the Laws relating to the Government of Her Majesty's Land or Naval Forces.

10. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to Scotland, except as herein-before otherwise expressly provided.

11. This Act shall commence and take effect on the First Day of November One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

CAP. XCV.

An Act to repeal certain Enactments which have been
consolidated in several Acts of the present Session
relating to indictable Offences and other Matters.
[6th August 1861.]
WHEREAS by Six several Acts of the present Session of
Parliament, relating respectively to Offences against the

Person, Malicious Injuries to Property, Larceny, Forgery,

Coining,

Coining, and Accessories and Abettors, divers Acts and Parts of Acts have been consolidated and amended, and it is ex'pedient to repeal the Enactments so consolidated and amended, and certain other Enactments: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

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1. The several Acts and Parts of Acts in the Schedule hereto annexed shall continue in force until and throughout the last Day of October in the present Year, and shall from and after that Day be repealed to the Extent following; (that is to say,) in any Case where the Enactment does not form Part of the Law of Scotland then the Enactment shall be wholly repealed, but in any Case where the Enactment does form Part of the Law of Scotland, then the Enactment shall be wholly repealed as to every other Place, but shall not be repealed as to Scotland, unless otherwise expressly mentioned.

2. Provided, That where any Enactment shall have been extended to any Part of Her Majesty's Dominions out of the United Kingdom by any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom or otherwise, the same shall not be repealed as to that Part of Her Majesty's Dominions.

Repeal of Acts and Parts of

Acts men

tioned in

Schedule.

Repeal not to affect the certain Cases.

Colonies in

&c. committed

Act.

3. Provided also, That every Offence which shall have been Repeal not to wholly or partly committed against any of the said Acts or Parts affect Offences, of Acts before this Act comes into operation shall be dealt before the with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished, and every CommencePenalty in respect of any such Offence shall be recovered, in ment of this the same Manner as if the said Acts and Parts of Acts had not been repealed; and that every Act duly done, and every Warrant and other Instrument duly made or granted, before this Act comes into operation, shall continue and be of the same Force and Effect as if the said Acts and Parts of Acts had not been repealed; and that every Right, Liability, Privilege, and Protection in respect of any Matter or Thing committed or done before this Act comes into operation shall continue and be of the same Force and Effect as if the said Acts and Parts of Acts had not been repealed; and that every Action, Prosecution, and other Proceeding which shall have been commenced before this Act comes into operation, or shall thereafter be commenced, in respect of any such Matter or Thing, may be prosecuted, continued, and defended in the same Manner as if the said Acts and Parts of Acts had not been repealed.

4. Provided also, That nothing herein contained shall in any Manner alter or affect any Power or Authority given by any Act to alter or amend any Register of Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, or Burials.

Repeal not to

affect any thority to amend Re

gisters of Births, &c.

The

Au

References to Act.

The SCHEDULE.

Title of Act.

Extent of Repeal.

10 C. 1. Sess. 3. c. 20. (I.)

An Act against such as shall levie any
Fine, suffer any Recovery, acknow-
ledge any Statute, Recognizance,
Baile, or Judgment in the Name of
any other Person or Persons not
being privie and consenting thereto.

7 W. 3. c. 18. (I.) | An Act for taking special Bails in the

2 & 3 Ann. c. 4.

6 Ann. c. 2. (I.)

6 Ann. c. 35.

7 Ann. c. 20.

Country upon Actions and Suits
depending in the Courts of King's
Bench, Common Pleas, and Ex-
chequer at Dublin.
An Act for the public registering of
Deeds, Conveyances, and Wills that
shall be made of any Honors,
Manors, Lands, Tenements, or
Hereditaments within the West
Riding of the County of York after
the Nine-and-twentieth Day of Sep-
tember One thousand seven hundred
and four.

An Act for the public registering of
all Deeds, Conveyances, and Wills
that shall be made of any Honors,
Manors, Lands, Tenements, or
Hereditaments.

An Act for the public registering of
all Deeds, Conveyances, Wills, and
other Incumbrances, that shall be
made of, or that may affect any
Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements,
or Hereditaments within the East
Riding of the County of York, or
the Town and County of the Town
of Kingston-upon-Hull, after the
Nine-and-twentieth Day of Sep-
tember One thousand seven hundred
and eight; and for the rendering
the Register in the West Riding
more complete.
An Act for the public registering of
Deeds, Conveyances, and Wills,
and other Incumbrances, which
shall be made of, or that may
affect
Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements,
or Hereditaments within the County
of Middlesex after the Twenty-
ninth Day of September One thou-
sand seven hundred and nine.

Ann. c. 10. (I.) An Act for amending an Act intituled
"An Act for the public registering
"of all Deeds, Conveyances, and
"Wills that shall be made of any

The whole.

Section Four.

So much of Section Nineteen as relates to any forging or counterfeiting there in mentioned.

So much of Section
Seventeen as relates
to any forging or
counterfeiting there-
in mentioned.
So much of Section
Twenty-six as relates
to any forging or
counterfeiting there
in mentioned.

So much of Section Fifteen as relates to any forging or coun terfeiting therein mentioned.

So much of Section

Four as relates to any forging or coun terfeiting therein mentioned.

References to Act.

8 Geo. 1. c. 15. (I.)

11 Geo. 1. c. 9.

12 Geo. 1. c. 32.

Title of Act.

An Act for explaining and amending
Two several Acts in relation to the
public registering of Deeds, Con-
veyances, and Wills.

An Act for continuing the several
Annuities of Eighty-eight thousand
seven hundred fifty-one Pounds
Seven Shillings and Tenpence
Halfpenny and One hundred thou-
sand Pounds to the Bank of England
until Midsummer One thousand
seven hundred and twenty-seven,
and from thence for reducing the
same to Seventy-one thousand and
one Pounds Two Shillings and
Threepence Three Farthings and
Eighty thousand Pounds, redeem-
able by Parliament, and for pre-
venting the uttering of forged,
counterfeited, or erased Bank Bills
or Notes.

Extent of Repeal.

So much of Section
Four as relates to
any forging or coun-
terfeiting therein
mentioned.
Section Six.

An Act for better securing the Monies Section Nine.
and Effects of the Suitors of the
Court of Chancery, and to prevent
the counterfeiting of East India
Bonds, and Indorsements thereon;
as likewise Indorsements on South
Sea Bonds.

3 Geo. 2. c. 4. (I.) An Act for the more effectual pre-
venting and further Punishment of
Forgery, Perjury, and Subornation
of Perjury, and to make it Felony
to steal Bonds, Notes, or other
Securities for Payment of Money,
and for the more effectual trans-
porting Felons, Vagabonds, and
others.

Section One.

So much of Section Thirty-one as relates to any forging or counterfeiting therein mentioned.

An Act for establishing an Agreement Section Twelve.
with the Governor and Company of
the Bank of England for advancing
the Sum of One million six hundred
thousand Pounds towards the Sup-
ply for the Service of the Year One
thousand seven hundred and forty-
two.

References to Act.

Title of Act.

Extent of Repeal.

(I.)

13 & 14 Geo. 3. c. 14. (I.)

17 Geo. 2. c. 11. An Act for the Amendment of the Law
in relation to Forgery, and the Sal-
vage of Ships and Goods stranded.
An Act for the more effectual pre-
venting the forging or altering the
Acceptance or Indorsement of Bills
of Exchange, or the Numbers or
Principal Sums of accountable Re-
ceipts for Notes, Bills, or other
Securities for Payment of Money,
or Warrants or Orders for Payment
of Money or Delivery of Goods.
An Act for establishing a Bank by the
Name of the Governors and Com-
pany of the Bank of Ireland.
An Act for better securing the Monies

1 & 22 Geo. 3. c. 16. (I.)

23 & 24 Geo. 3. c. 22. (I.)

25 Geo. 3. c. 37. (I.)

27 Geo. 3. c. 15. (I.).

35 Geo. 3. c. 66.

and Effects of the Suitors of the
Court of Chancery and the Court of
Exchequer by depositing the same
in the National Bank; and to pre-
vent the forging and counterfeiting
any Draft, Order, or other Voucher
for the Payment or Delivery of such
Money or Effects; and for other
Purposes.

Section One.

The whole.

Sections Fifteen and
Sixteen.

Section Twenty-two.

An Act to prevent tumultuous Ris-
ings and Assemblies, and for the
more effectual Punishment of Per-
sons guilty of Outrage, Riot, and
illegal Combination, and of adminis-
tering and taking unlawful Oaths.
An Act for making Part of certain
Principal Sums or Stock and An-
nuities raised or created or to be
raised or created by the Parliament
of the Kingdom of Ireland on Loans
for the Use of the Government of
that Kingdom transferable, and
the Dividends on such Stock and
Annuities payable at the Bank of
England; and for the better Se-
curity of the Proprietors of such

Section Five.

Section Three and all the subsequent Sections.