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 * (b) for the words from “murder” to “been stolen” there shall be substituted the words “an arrestable offence” and for the words “any of the said offences” there shall be substituted the words “that offence”.

(2) In section 30 of the Criminal Law Act 1826 (which enables compensation to be awarded to the family of anyone killed in trying to apprehend a person charged with an offence mentioned in section 28) for the words “any of the offences hereinbefore last mentioned” there shall be substituted the words “an arrestable offence”.

4. In section 8 of the Carriers Act 1830 (under which the protection given by that Act to common carriers does not extend to the felonious acts of their servants) for the words “the felonious acts” there shall be substituted the words “any theft, embezzlement or forgery”.

5. In the following enactments (which confer on the police powers of entry into vessels on suspicion of felony), that is to say,—
 * (a) section 34 of the Metropolitan Police Act 1839;
 * (b) section 9 of the Canals (Offences) Act 1840;

for the expressions “felony” and “felonies” there shall be substituted the expressions “arrestable offence” and “arrestable offences”; and any enactment for the same or like purposes which is contained in any local or private Act shall be modified as near as may be in the same way.

6. In the following enactments (which provide for the trial of murder or manslaughter where any person dies in a country after being feloniously stricken out of it or vice versa), that is to say,—
 * (a) section 3 of the Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act 1849;
 * (b) section 1 of the Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act 1860;
 * (c) section 10 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861;

for the word “feloniously”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted the word “criminally”.

7. In section 7 of the Malicious Damage Act 1861 (which makes it an offence to set fire to anything in, against or under a building in such circumstances that if the building were thereby set fire to it would amount to felony) for the words “the offence would amount to felony” there shall be substituted the words “he would be guilty of an offence under any of the preceding sections”.

8. The following enactments (which make it an offence to make or have gunpowder etc. for the purpose of a felony mentioned in the Act in question, and confer powers of search for such gunpowder etc.), that is to say,—
 * (a) sections 54 and 55 of the Malicious Damage Act 1861; and
 * (b) sections 64 and 65 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861;

shall have effect as if the references to felonies mentioned in the Act included any offence so mentioned for which a person (not