Act of Indemnity

In legal terms, an Act of Indemnity is a statute passed to protect people who have committed some illegal act which would otherwise cause them to be subjected to legal penalties.

Act of Indemnity may also refer to:

England and Great Britain

• Act of General Pardon and Oblivion 1652, passed by the Rump Parliament during the First Commonwealth
• Act of Indemnity and Free Pardon 1659, during the Second Commonwealth
• Indemnity and Oblivion Act (or Act of Indemnity 1660), following the Restoration
• Indemnity Act 1690, following the Glorious Revolution
• Indemnity Act 1703
• Indemnity Act 1717, following the Jacobite rising of 1715
• Indemnity Act 1747, following the Jacobite rising of 1745
• Indemnity Act 1767, one of the Townshend Acts, relating to the British colonies in North America

Bangladesh

• Indemnity Act, Bangladesh, which gave immunity from legal action to the persons involved in the assassination of president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

South Africa

• Indemnity Act, 1961, which gave immunity to the government in relation to the Sharpeville massacre
• Indemnity Act, 1977, which gave immunity to the government in relation to the Soweto uprising