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| Long title | An Act to abolish the Punishment of Death in Cases of Forgery. |
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| Statute book chapter | 7 Will 4 & 1 Vict c 84 |
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| Royal Assent | 17 July 1837 |
| Commencement | 1 October 1837[2] |
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| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Forgery Act 1837 (7 Will 4 & 1 Vict c 84) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
This Act was retained for the Republic of Ireland by section 2 of, and Part 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007. It is still in force in that country.[3]
The preamble referred to the following Acts:
Section 1 abolished the death penalty for the offences mentioned in the preamble. It provided instead that a person convicted of any of those offences was liable to be transported for life, or for a term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding four years and not less than two years.
Section 3 provided that persons convicted of offences made punishable by imprisonment could be kept to hard labour and solitary confinement.
Section 4 provided that the Act did not affect the powers conferred by the 5 & 6 Will 4 c 38 or the 4 Geo 4 c 64.
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