4. c. 53) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed for Ireland enactments relating to the criminal law from 1225 to 1826.

In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliament remain in force until expressly repealed.

Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the late 18th-century, raised questions about the system and structure of the common law and the poor drafting and disorder of the existing statute book.

[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] From 1810 to 1825, The Statutes of the Realm was published, providing for the first time the authoritative collection of acts.

[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."

[3] In 1822, Sir Robert Peel entered the cabinet as home secretary and in 1826 introduced a number of reforms to the English criminal law, which became known as Peel's Acts.

This included efforts to modernise, consolidate and repeal provisions from a large number of earlier statutes, including:[4] In 1827, several Acts were passed for this purpose, territorially limited to England and Wales and Scotland, including: In 1828, the Offences Against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo.

4 c. 31) was passed, which consolidated for England and Wales provisions in the law related to offences against the person.

During the parliamentary debate for the Larceny Laws Repeal Bill in the House of Commons on 13 March 1827, which extended only to England and Wales, the home secretary Sir Robert Peel MP assured members of parliament that a similar bill was in preparation for Ireland.

[5] In 1828, parallel bills for Ireland to Peel's Acts were introduced, becoming:[6] The Larceny Acts Repeal (Ireland) Bill was brought in to the House of Commons on 6 May 1828 by the chief secretary for Ireland, William Lamb MP, Mr Doherty and Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace MP.

[9] The amended bill was considered and agreed to by the House of Commons on 3 July 1828.