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| short_title = Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1802{{efn|name=st|The citation of this act by this [[short title]] was authorised by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the [[Short Titles Act 1896]]. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the [[Interpretation Act 1978]].}}<br />
| parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom<br />
| type = Act<br />
| long_title = An Act for the trying and punishing in Great Britain Persons holding publick Employments, for Offences committed abroad; and for extending the Provisions of [[21 Jas. 1|an Act passed in the Twenty-first Year of the Reign of King James]] made for the Ease of Justices and others in pleading in Suits brought against them, to all Persons, either in or out of this Kingdom, authorized to commit to safe Custody.<br />
| year = 1802<br />
| citation = [[42 Geo. 3]]. c. 85<br />
| territorial_extent = [[United Kingdom]]<br />
| royal_assent = {{Start date|1802|06|22|df=y}}<br />
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| repeal_date = <br />
| amends = [[Public Officers Protection Act 1623]]<br />
| amendments = {{ubli|[[Statute Law Revision Act 1888]]|[[Public Works Loans Act 1892]]|[[Official Secrets Act 1889]]|[[Perjury Act 1911]]|[[Criminal Justice Act 1948]]|[[Criminal Law Act 1967]]}}<br />
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| status = partially_repealed<br />
| original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?<br />
| revised_text = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo3/42/85/contentsid=VkmpYG4zItsC&pg=PA417<br />
| use_new_UK-LEG = yes<br />
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The '''Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1802''' ([[42 Geo. 3]]. c. 85) is an [[Act of Parliament (United Kingdom)|act]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]].<ref name="Statutes" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo3/42/85|title=Legislation.gov entry}}</ref><br />
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== Provisions ==<br />
In the wake of the attempted [[impeachment of Warren Hastings]], it legislated for the [[Court of Queen's Bench (England)|Court of King's Bench]] to try and punish past, present and future offences by colonial officials and military officers as if they had been committed in [[Middlesex]], [[City of Westminster|Westminster]] or any county where the offender resided (sections 1 and 6).<ref name="Statutes" /> It also enabled that court to obtain evidence from governors, local courts and others in the area where the offence occurred by [[mandamus|writ of mandamus]] (section 2) and made other provisions for the gathering of that evidence (sections 3–4) as well as applying the usual perjury laws (section 5).<ref name="Statutes" /><br />
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The act thus applied more widely the provisions of the [[Governors of Plantations Act 1698]] ([[11 Will. 3]]. c. 12){{efn|{{efn|This is the citation in ''[[The Statutes of the Realm]]''.}}}} and the [[East India Company]] Acts of 1772 and [[Pitt's India Act|1784]].<ref name="Statutes">{{cite book |title=A Collection Of Statutes Relating To India Vol.1 |year=1899 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24167/page/n117/mode/2up |publisher=Office Of The Superintendent Of Government Printing, Calcutta}}</ref><br />
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== Subsequent developments ==<br />
The act was later extended to offences under the [[Official Secrets Act 1889]] ([[52 & 53 Vict.]] c. 52).<br />
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Part of sections 2 to 6 of the act were repealed for the [[United Kingdom]] by section 2 of [[Public Works Loans Act 1892]] (55 & 56 Vict. c. 61).<br />
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In section 1 of the act, the words from " either upon an information " to " upon an indictment ",repealed for [[England and Wales]] by section 10(2) of, and part III of schedule 3 to, the [[Criminal Law Act 1967]], which came into force on 1 January 1968.<ref>{{Cite legislation UK|act=Criminal Law Act 1967|type=act|year=1967|chapter=58}}</ref><br />
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Sections 2 to 6 were repealed in their entirety by the [[Statute Law Revision Act 1964]] – there are no remaining outstanding effects from the act.<ref name="Statutes" /><br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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