The Lunacy Regulation Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 70) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments relating to mental health law in England and Wales and Ireland.
The Lunatic Asylums Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 97) was passed in the same month as the act.
Section 1 of the act repealed 7 enactments, listed in the first schedule to the act.
The Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 22) repealed several enactments in this act.
The whole act was repealed by section 5 of, and the fifth schedule to, the Lunacy Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 5).