Justices Commitment Act 1741
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Long titleAn Act to empower the Justices of the Peace of a Liberty or Corporation to commit Offenders to the House of Correction of the County, Riding, or Division, in which such Liberty or Corporation is situate.
Territorial extentGreat Britain
Royal assent16 June 1742
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to empower the Justices of the Peace of a Liberty or Corporation to commit Offenders to the House of Correction of the County, Riding, or Division, in which such Liberty or Corporation is situate. |
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| Citation | 15 Geo. 2. c. 24 |
| Territorial extent | Great Britain |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 16 June 1742 |
| Commencement | 1 December 1741[b] |
| Repealed | 1 December 1914 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | Criminal Justice Administration Act 1914 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Justices Commitment Act 1741[a] (15 Geo. 2. c. 24) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1742 and formally repealed in 1914. It clarified the powers of justices of the peace to imprison convicts.
Many towns did not maintain their own prisons, and as such the power of Justices in those towns to sentence someone to imprisonment had become questioned. To resolve doubts which had arisen on the matter, the act declared that the justices of the peace of a liberty or corporation, on sentencing someone to be sent to a house of correction, could send them to the house of correction of the county in which the liberty or corporation was situated.