The preamble was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1894.

A person guilty of this offence is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

[5] Where a person is convicted on indictment of this offence, the court, if not precluded from sentencing an offender by its exercise of some other power, may impose a fine instead of or in addition to dealing with him in any other way in which the court has power to deal with him, subject however to any enactment requiring the offender to be dealt with in a particular way.

[6] In 1985, the Law Commission said that this offence was no longer used and recommended that it be repealed.

[8] They also said that there was a considerable overlap with the offence in section 2 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860.