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Prevention of Crimes Amendment Act 1876

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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1876 c. 23


Prevention of Crimes Amendment Act, 1876

(39 & 40 Vict.) 23.

An Act to amend the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871.

[13th July 1876]

W HEREAS by the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871, all persons convicted of crime in the United Kingdom are required to be registered and photographed, and unnecessary expense is thereby incurred:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Short title of Act.

1 Short title of Act.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as thePrevention of Crimes Amendment Act, 1876.

S-2 Restriction on obligation to register and photograph criminals.

2 Restriction on obligation to register and photograph criminals.

2. In Great Britain the Secretary of State, and in Ireland the Lord Lieutenant, may from time to time by order prescribe the class or classes of prisoners to which the enactments of the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871, relating to registry and photographing are for the time being to apply; and such enactments shall, so long as any such orders are in force, be deemed to apply to the prescribed class or classes of prisoners only, and not to all persons convicted of crime.

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