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PENAL SERVITUDE ACT 1857

PENAL SERVITUDE ACT 1857 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Act of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of
Her Majesty, to substitute in certain Cases other Punishment in lieu
of Transportation.{1}
[26th June 1857]
Preamble, which recites the Penal Servitude Act 1853 (c.99), rep. by
SLR 1892

Sentence of transportation abolished, and sentence of penal servitude
substituted.

PENAL SERVITUDE ACT 1857 - SECT 2

2. No person shall be sentenced to transportation; and any person
who, if this Act and the said Act had not been passed, might have
been sentenced to transportation, shall be liable to be sentenced to
be kept in penal servitude for a term of the same duration as the
term of transportation to which such person would have been liable
if the said Act and this Act had not been passed; and in every
case where, at the discretion of the court, one of any two or
more terms of transportation might have been awarded, the court
shall have the like discretion to award one of any two or more of
the terms of penal servitude which are hereby authorized to be
awarded instead of such terms of transportation:....

Ss.3, 4 rep. by SLR 1892; 1953 c.14 (NI) s.29 sch.3. S.5 rep. by
1953 c.18 (NI) s.48 sch.5

PENAL SERVITUDE ACT 1857 - SECT 6
Construction of enactments referring to transportation.

6. Where in any enactment now in force the expression "any crime
punishable with transportation," or "any crime punishable by law with
transportation," or any expression of the like import, is used, the
enactment shall be construed and take effect as applicable also to
any crime punishable with penal servitude.

Ss.7, 8 rep. by SLR 1892