4. c. 74) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed criminal justice in India.

In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliament remain in force until expressly repealed.

[1] In 1806, the Commission on Public Records passed a resolution requesting the production of a report on the best mode of reducing the volume of the statute book.

[2] In 1816, both Houses of Parliament, passed resolutions that an eminent lawyer with 20 clerks be commissioned to make a digest of the statutes, which was declared "very expedient to be done."

[6] The bill had its first reading in the House of Commons on 6 June 1828, presented by Charles Williams-Wynn MP.