Servants' Characters Act 1792

Servants' Characters Act 1792
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for preventing the counterfeiting of Certificates of the Characters of Servants.
Citation	32 Geo. 3. c. 56
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	15 June 1792
Commencement	1 July 1792
Repealed	21 July 2008
Other legislation
Amended by	Statute Law Revision Act 1871; Summary Jurisdiction Act 1884; Statute Law Revision Act 1888; Criminal Justice Act 1948; Justices of the Peace Act 1949; Courts Act 1971; Bail Act 1976; Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981;
Repealed by	Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2008
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended
Text of the Servants' Characters Act 1792 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The Servants' Characters Act 1792 (32 Geo. 3. c. 56) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. It came about following a petition to Parliament by London and Westminster residents, concerned over a perceived rise in the use of false references by servants to gain employment. The use of false references to gain entry to a house had been linked to a number of burglaries across the country. The act criminalised the creation of false references by employers or servants and the misrepresentation by servants of their employment history. Only a single successful prosecution was made under the act, in 1910, and it was repealed in 2008.