SCHEDULE Offences referred to in s. 3

1

In the application of section three of this Act to England and Wales and to Northern Ireland, the expression “offence against the person” means any of the following offences, that is to say:—

a

murder, manslaughter, rape F1, torture, buggery F2robbery and assault F3and any offence of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring suicide or an attempt to commit suicide; and

b

any offence not falling within the foregoing sub-paragraph, being an offence punishable under any of the following enactments:—

i

the Offences against the M1Person Act, 1861, except section fifty-seven thereof (which relates to bigamy);

F4ii

the M2Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885;

iii

the M3Punishment of Incest Act, 1908;

iv

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 section eighty-nine of the M4Mental Health Act (Northern Ireland), 1948 (which relate respectively to certain offences against mentally defective females);

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vi

sections one to five and section eleven of the M5Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, and sections eleven, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen and twenty-one of the M6Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland), 1950; and

vii

the M7Infanticide Act, 1938 and the M8Infanticide Act (Northern Ireland), 1939. F7and

vii

article 3(1)(a) of the Protection of Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1978

F8viii

sections two to twenty-eight of the M9Sexual Offences Act 1956.

F9ix

section 1(1)(a) of the Protection of Children Act 1978

F10x

the Child Abduction Act 1984.

F11xi

section 1 of the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985.

F12xii

the Child Abduction (Northern Ireland) Order 1985

F13c

an offence of making such a threat as is mentioned in subsection (3)(a) of section 1 of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 and any of the following offences against a protected person within the meaning of that section, namely an offence of kidnapping, an offence of false imprisonment and an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 of causing an explosion likely to endanger life.

F14d

an offence under section 2 of the Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983, where the circumstances are that—

i

in the case of a contravention of subsection (2), the act falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of that subsection would, had it been done, have constituted an offence falling within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph, or

ii

in the case of a contravention of subsection (3) or (4), the act threatened would, had it been done, have constituted such an offence