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Offences Against the Person Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom, in the Republic of Ireland, in Hong Kong, in New Zealand, in Tasmania, in Jamaica, and in Antigua and Barbuda, relating to offences against the person. It seems to have been derived from the long title of the Act which has come to be known as the Offences Against the Person Act 1828. It is sometimes abbreviated to OAPA, as in "OAPA 1861".
The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Offences Against the Person Bill during its passage through Parliament.
"Offences Against the Person Acts" may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to offences against the person. It is not a term of art.
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countries as a legacy of theOffencesagainstthePersonAct 1861. Although most sexual offences will also be offencesagainsttheperson, for various reasons...
sometimes called theOffencesagainstthePersonAct 1828, and under the corresponding Irish Act (10 Geo. 4. c. 34), and re-enacted those offences in different...
TheOffencesagainstthePersonAct 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 94) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then...
Act 1834, and the whole section was repealed and replaced by section 3 of theOffencesagainstthePersonAct 1861. The Anatomy Act provided for the needs...
notable for the circumstances of its passage in Parliament. Under theOffencesagainstthePersonAct 1861, the age of consent was 12 (reflecting the common...
until the passing of the Sexual OffencesAct 1967 in England and Wales, the Criminal Justice Act 1980 in Scotland, and the Homosexual Offences Order 1982...
The procurement of an abortion remains a criminal offence in Great Britain under theOffencesAgainstthePersonAct 1861, although the Abortion Act provides...
describe the severest forms of battery. It refers to two offences that are created by sections 18 and 20 of theOffencesagainstthePersonAct 1861. The distinction...
of Ireland: A criminal offence under section 57 of theOffencesAgainstthePersonAct 1861, up to seven years' imprisonment. The Director of Public Prosecutions...
detestable and abominable vice of buggery". The OffencesagainstthePersonAct 1861 specifically lowered the capital punishment for sodomy to life imprisonment...
criminal offences is a partial categorization of English criminal law offences. Offences under the Explosive Substances Act 1883 Offences under the Computer...
suicide. Sections 58 and 59 of theOffencesAgainstthePersonAct 1861 were repealed, and effectively superseded by theoffence defined in section 22 of intentionally...
legislation from the European countries. Most notable is Britain's OffencesAgainstthePersonAct 1861, which outlined many crimes and named sodomy as one of...
1875, theOffencesAgainstthePersonAct raised the age to 13 in Great Britain and Ireland, and ten years later the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 raised...
held that the slightest penetration was sufficient. This section was replaced by section 63 of theOffencesagainstthePersonAct 1861. The term was not...
similar offence (see below). Theoffence is created by section 39 of theOffencesagainstthePerson Ordinance. It is triable on indictment and a person guilty...
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