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Criminal Lunatics Act 1884

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Criminal Lunatics.
Citation	47 & 48 Vict. c. 64
Territorial extent	England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent	14 August 1884
Commencement	1 November 1884
Repealed	1 November 1960
Other legislation
Amends	See § Repealed enactments
Repeals/revokes	See § Repealed enactments
Amended by	Criminal Justice Act 1948
Repealed by	Mental Health Act 1959
Relates to	Criminal Lunatics Act 1800
Status: Repealed
History of passage through Parliament
Records of Parliamentary debate relating to the statute from Hansard
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Criminal Lunatics Act 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 64) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments relating to mentally ill offenders in England and Wales.

Passage

Leave to bring in the Criminal Lunatics Bill to the House of Commons was granted to J. T. Hibbert MP and the Home Secretary, Sir William Harcourt MP on 19 June 1884. The bill had its first reading in the House of Commons on 19 June 1884, presented by J. T. Hibbert MP. The bill had its second reading in the House of Commons on 26 June 1884 and was committed to a committee of the whole house. The committee was discharged on 27 June 1884 and was referred to the Standing Committee on Law, and Courts of Justice, and Legal Procedure, which reported on 17 July 1884, with amendments. The amended bill had its third reading in the House of Commons on 31 August 1884 and passed, without amendments.

The bill had its first reading in the House of Lords on 1 August 1884. The bill had its second reading in the House of Lords on 5 August 1884 and was committed to a committee of the whole house, which met reported on 7 August 1884, without amendments. The bill had its third reading in the House of Lords on 8 August 1884 and passed, with amendments.

The amended bill was considered and agreed to by the House of Commons on 8 August 1884.

The bill was granted royal assent on 14 August 1884.

Provisions

Repealed enactments

Section 17 of the act repealed 11 enactments, listed in the first schedule to the act.

Legacy

The act was described as a Consolidation Act.

The whole act was repealed by the Mental Health Act 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 72).

Notes

1. Section 1.
2. Section 18.
3. Section 18.

References

1. ^ Commons, Great Britain House of (1884). The Journals of the House of Commons (PDF). Vol. 139. pp. 306, 322, 324, 382, 386, 389, 396, 399, 405, 411, 413, 418, 443, 445, 451.
2. ^ Lords, Great Britain Parliament House of (1884). The Journals of the House of Lords. Vol. 116. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 387, 388, 396, 402, 404, 406, 415, 443.
3. The Public General Statutes: Passed in the ... Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. 1884. Vol. 20. 1884. pp. 177–186.
4. The Law Journal. Vol. 28. E.B. Ince. 1890. p. 413.

• United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1870
• Legal history of England
• Mental health legal history of the United Kingdom
• English criminal law
• Repealed United Kingdom Acts of Parliament
• Consolidation Acts