Housing Act 1985

Section 84A(9)

[F1SCHEDULE 2AE+WAbsolute Ground for Possession for Anti-social Behaviour: Serious Offences

Violent offencesE+W

1E+WMurder.

2E+WManslaughter.

3E+WKidnapping.

4E+WFalse imprisonment.

5E+WAn offence under any of the following sections of the Offences against the Person Act 1861—

(a)section 4 (soliciting murder),

(b)section 16 (threats to kill),

(c)section 18 (wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm),

(d)section 20 (malicious wounding),

(e)section 21 (attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle in order to commit or assist in committing an indictable offence),

(f)section 22 (using chloroform etc. to commit or assist in the committing of any indictable offence),

(g)section 23 (maliciously administering poison etc. so as to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm),

(h)section 24 (maliciously administering poison etc. with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy any other person),

(i)section 27 (abandoning or exposing children whereby life is endangered or health permanently injured),

(j)section 28 (causing bodily injury by explosives),

(k)section 29 (using explosives etc. with intent to do grievous bodily harm),

(l)section 30 (placing explosives with intent to do bodily injury),

(m)section 31 (setting spring guns etc. with intent to do grievous bodily harm),

(n)section 38 (assault with intent to resist arrest),

(o)section 47 (assault occasioning actual bodily harm).

6E+WAn offence under any of the following sections of the Explosive Substances Act 1883—

(a)section 2 (causing explosion likely to endanger life or property),

(b)section 3 (attempt to cause explosion, or making or keeping explosive with intent to endanger life or property),

(c)section 4 (making or possession of explosive under suspicious circumstances).

7E+WAn offence under section 1 of the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 (child destruction).

8E+WAn offence under section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (cruelty to children).

9E+WAn offence under section 1 of the Infanticide Act 1938 (infanticide).

10E+WAn offence under any of the following sections of the Public Order Act 1986—

(a)section 1 (riot),

(b)section 2 (violent disorder),

(c)section 3 (affray).

11E+WAn offence under either of the following sections of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997—

(a)section 4 (putting people in fear of violence),

(b)section 4A (stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm or distress).

12E+WAn offence under any of the following provisions of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998—

(a)section 29 (racially or religiously aggravated assaults),

(b)section 31(1)(a) or (b) (racially or religiously aggravated offences under section 4 or 4A of the Public Order Act 1986),

(c)section 32 (racially or religiously aggravated harassment etc.).

13E+WAn offence under either of the following sections of the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003—

(a)section 1 (female genital mutilation),

(b)section 2 (assisting a girl to mutilate her own genitalia).

14E+WAn offence under section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult).

Sexual offencesE+W

15E+WAn offence under section 33A of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (keeping a brothel used for prostitution).

16E+WAn offence under section 1 of the Protection of Children Act 1978 (indecent photographs of children).

17E+WAn offence under section 160 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (possession of indecent photograph of a child).

18E+WAn indictable offence under Part 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (sexual offences).

Offensive weaponsE+W

19E+WAn offence under either of the following sections of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953—

(a)section 1 (prohibition of the carrying of offensive weapons without lawful authority or reasonable excuse),

(b)section 1A (threatening with offensive weapon in public).

20E+WAn offence under any of the following provisions of the Firearms Act 1968—

(a)section 16 (possession of firearm with intent to endanger life),

(b)section 16A (possession of firearm with intent to cause fear of violence),

(c)section 17(1) (use of firearm to resist arrest),

(d)section 17(2) (possession of firearm at time of committing or being arrested for offence specified in Schedule 1 to the Act of 1968),

(e)section 18 (carrying a firearm with criminal intent),

(f)section 19 (carrying a firearm in a public place),

(g)section 20 (trespassing with firearm),

(h)section 21 (possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of crime).

21E+WAn offence under either of the following sections of the Criminal Justice Act 1988—

(a)section 139 (having article with blade or point in public place),

(b)section 139AA (threatening with article with blade or point or offensive weapon).

Offences against propertyE+W

22E+WAn offence under any of the following sections of the Theft Act 1968—

(a)section 8 (robbery or assault with intent to rob),

(b)section 9 (burglary),

(c)section 10 (aggravated burglary).

23E+WAn offence under section 1 of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 (destroying or damaging property).

24E+WAn offence under section 30 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage).

Road traffic offencesE+W

25E+WAn offence under section 35 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (injuring persons by furious driving).

26E+WAn offence under section 12A of the Theft Act 1968 (aggravated vehicle-taking involving an accident which caused the death of any person).

27E+WAn offence under any of the following sections of the Road Traffic Act 1988—

(a)section 1 (causing death by dangerous driving),

(b)section 1A (causing serious injury by dangerous driving),

(c)section 3A (causing death by careless driving when under influence of drink or drugs).

Drug-related offencesE+W

28E+WAn offence under any of the following provisions of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971—

(a)section 4 (restriction of production and supply of controlled drugs),

(b)section 5(3) (possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply),

(c)section 8(a) or (b) (occupiers etc. of premises to be punishable for permitting unlawful production or supply etc. of controlled drugs there).

29E+WAn offence under section 6 of that Act (restrictions of cultivation of cannabis plant) where the cultivation is for profit and the whole or a substantial part of the dwelling-house concerned is used for the cultivation.

Inchoate offencesE+W

30(1)An offence of attempting or conspiring the commission of an offence specified or described in this Schedule.E+W

(2)An offence under Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 (encouraging or assisting) where the offence (or one of the offences) which the person in question intends or believes would be committed is an offence specified or described in this Schedule.

(3)An offence of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of an offence specified or described in this Schedule.

Scope of offencesE+W

31E+WWhere this Schedule refers to offences which are offences under the law of England and Wales and another country or territory, the reference is to be read as limited to the offences so far as they are offences under the law of England and Wales.]