Remission of Penalties Act 1859

The Remission of Penalties Act 1859^[1]
Dates
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to amend the Law concerning the Remission of Penalties.
Citation	22 Vict c 32
Royal assent	19 April 1859

The Remission of Penalties Act 1859 (22 Vict c 32) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It allows the Crown to remit penalties for offences that are payable to parties other than the Crown.

This Act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 26 of, and the Second Schedule to, the Criminal Justice Act, 1951.

Preamble

The preamble was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1892.

Section 1 - Penalties for offences may be remitted by the Crown although payable to parties other than the Crown

It shall be lawful for Her Majesty... to remit in whole or in part any sum of money which under any Act now in force or hereafter to be passed may be imposed as a penalty or forfeiture on a convicted offender, although such money may be in whole or in part payable to some party other than the Crown, and to extend the Royal mercy to any person who may be imprisoned for non-payment of any sum of money so imposed, although the same may be in whole or in part payable to some party other than the Crown.

The words "or in Ireland for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland" were repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1892 and by article 14(2) of, and Schedule 6 to, the Northern Ireland (Modification of Enactments-No 1) Order 1973 (S.I. 1973/2163).

See Todd v Robinson (1884) 14 QBD 739, (1884) 54 LJQB 47, CA.

"Payable to some party other than the Crown"

This formerly included a penalty payable to a common informer. Such penalties were abolished by section 1 of the Common Informers Act 1951.

References

Halsbury's Statutes,

↑ The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896.

External links

The Remission of Penalties Act 1859, as amended from the National Archives.
The Remission of Penalties Act 1859, as originally enacted from the National Archives.

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