Accessories and Abettors Act 1861

c. 94) is a mainly repealed Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

It consolidated statutory English criminal law related to accomplices, including many classes of encouragers (inciters).

Mainly its offences were, according to the draftsman of the Act,[2] replacement enactments with little or no variation in phraseology.

The active section thus applies to England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

In AG's Reference (No 1 of 1975) (1975) QB 773, Lord Chief Justice Widgery stated that the words in section 8 should be given their ordinary meaning.