Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Indictable Offences (1871–1879)
The Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Indictable Offences (also known as the Criminal Code Commission, the Royal Commission on the Criminal Code or the Blackburn Commission) was a royal commission that ran from 1871 to 1879 to consolidate existing statutes and enactments of English criminal law. The Commission followed the earlier Royal Commission on Revising and Consolidating the Criminal Law (1845–1849) (which had not been successful) and also the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861 (24 & 25 Vict.