Citation 7 Will 4 & 1 Vict c 84 Commencement 1 October 1837 | Royal assent 17 July 1837 | |
Long title An Act to abolish the Punishment of Death in Cases of Forgery. | ||
The Forgery Act 1837 (7 Will 4 & 1 Vict c 84) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has been repealed.
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.
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.
The preamble referred to the following Acts: