The Protection of Life and Property in Certain Parts of Ireland Act 1871 or Protection of Life and Property (Ireland) Act 1871 ( 34 & 35 Vict. c. 25) was an Act of the

Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...

. It was one element of the special emergency legislation that had been applied to

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

Westminster Westminster is an area of Central London, part of the wider City of Westminster. The area, which extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street, has many visitor attractions and historic landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Bu ...

during the 19th and 20th centuries.''Human Rights''; Taylor & Francis Group The Act was also known as the Westmeath Act''A New History of Ireland''; Theodore William Moody & Francis Xavier Martin; The Act permitted the arrest and detention without trial of persons reasonably suspected of membership in a secret society and effectively suspended ''

habeas corpus ''Habeas corpus'' (; from Medieval Latin, ) is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, t ...

'' in Ireland.

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{{UK legislation United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1871 Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning Ireland 1871 in Ireland Emergency laws in the United Kingdom