Offences Against the Person Act 1828

Offences Against the Person Act 1828
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act for consolidating and amending the Statutes in England relative to Offences against the Person.
Citation	9 Geo. 4. c. 31
Introduced by	Sir Robert Peel MP (Commons); Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (Lords)
Territorial extent	England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent	27 June 1828
Commencement	1 July 1828
Repealed	1 November 1861
Other legislation
Amends	See § Repealed acts
Repeals/revokes	See § Repealed acts
Amended by	Offences Against the Person Act 1837
Repealed by	Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861
Relates to	Criminal Law Act 1827; Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1827; Larceny Act 1827; Malicious Injuries to Property Act 1827; Remedies against the Hundred Act 1827; Criminal Statutes (Ireland) Repeal Act 1828; Criminal Law (India) Act 1828; Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829; Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861; Forgery Act 1830; Coinage Offences Act 1832; Offences Against the Person Act 1837; Accessories and Abettors Act 1861; Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861; Larceny Act 1861; Malicious Damage Act 1861; Forgery Act 1861; Coinage Offences Act 1861; Offences Against the Person Act 1861;
Status: Repealed
History of passage through Parliament
Records of Parliamentary debate relating to the statute from Hansard
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Offences Against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 31), also known as Lord Lansdowne's Act, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated for England and Wales provisions in the law related to offences against the person (an expression which, in particular, includes offences of violence) from a number of earlier piecemeal statutes into a single act. Among the laws it replaced was clause XXVI of Magna Carta, the first time any part of Magna Carta was repealed, and the Buggery Act 1533 (25 Hen. 8. c. 6). The act also abolished the crime of petty treason.

The act was one of Peel's Acts which consolidated, repealed and replaced a large number of existing statutes.

Similar provision was made for Ireland by the Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. 34) and for India by the Criminal Law (India) Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 74).
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