The Attempted Rape Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 19) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that increased the maximum sentence for attempted rape from two years' imprisonment to seven years' penal servitude. (Penal servitude was abolished later that year by the Criminal Justice Act 1948, and replaced with imprisonment.Section 1(1)) The Attempted Rape Act was repealed and replaced by the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 69),Section 51 and Schedule 4 which maintained the maximum sentence of seven years' imprisonmentSection 37 and Schedule 2 paragraph 1(b) until the 1956 act was amended by the Sexual Offences Act 1985, which increased the maximum sentence to life imprisonment.Section 3, effective 16 September 1985.
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Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed for England and Wales by section 51 of, and the fourth schedule to, the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 69), which came into force on 1 January 1957.
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References Halsbury's Statutes of England, 2nd edition, volume 5. London: Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Ltd (1948), pp. 1132-1133
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