Peel's Acts
Peel's Acts were Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. They consolidated provisions from a large number of earlier statutes which were then repealed. Their purpose was to simplify the criminal law. The term refers to the Home Secretary who sponsored them, Sir Robert Peel. There were two separate sets of broadly identical Acts for England and Ireland respectively.
The Acts were the product of a failed attempt to codify the criminal law. They were replaced by the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861.List
The first four Acts on this list consolidated 316 Acts, representing almost four-fifths of all offences.England
Ireland
