Repeal
Sections 1 and 2 were repealed on 28 January 1863 by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1863.
The words of enactment (those from "and be it" to "enacted") in sections 5, 6 and 7 were repealed by section 1(1) of, and Part I of the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1888.
In section 7, the words "that no peer of this realm shall be tried for any offence against this Act but by his peers, and further" were repealed for Scotland and Northern Ireland by sections 81, 82, and 83(3) of, and Part III of Schedule 10 to, the Criminal Justice Act 1948.
The first schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1948 repealed the following words:
- In the preamble, the words from "and remembering" to "Her Majesties person"
- In section 3, the words from "at any time after" to "sixty and one", and the words from "Provided nevertheless" to the end
- In section 4, the words from "other then" to "high treason"
- In section 5, the words "treasons or" and "treason or"
The whole Act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 13 of, and Part I of Schedule 4 to, the Criminal Law Act 1967.
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