Malicious Damage Act 1861

rdf:langString Malicious Damage Act 1861

rdf:langString Republic of Ireland

rdf:langString England and Wales,

rdf:langString Northern Ireland,

rdf:langString An Act to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of England and Ireland relating to Malicious Injuries to Property.

rdf:langString Parliament of the United Kingdom

rdf:langString Malicious Damage Act 1861

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rdf:langString The Malicious Damage Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict c 97) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then was). It consolidated provisions related to malicious damage from a number of earlier statutes into a single Act. For the most part these provisions were, according to the draftsman of the Act, incorporated with little or no variation in their phraseology. It is one of a group of Acts sometimes referred to as the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861. It was passed with the object of simplifying the law. It is essentially a revised version of an earlier consolidation Act, the Malicious Injuries to Property Act 1827 (7 & 8 Geo 4 c 30) (and the equivalent Irish Act), incorporating subsequent statutes. The Act applied in the Republic of Ireland until 1991 and still applies in some Commonwealth countries which were parts of the British Empire in 1861, such as Sierra Leone.