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Visiting Forces Act 1952

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1In 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, buggery and assault; 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 Person Act, 1861, except section fifty-seven thereof (which relates to bigamy);.

(ii)the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885;

(iii)the Punishment of Incest Act, 1908;

(iv)section fifty-six of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, and section eighty-nine of the Mental Health Act (Northern Ireland), 1948 (which relate respectively to certain offences against mentally defective females);

(v)section twenty-three of the Larceny Act, 1916 (which relates to robbery);

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

(vii)the Infanticide Act, 1938 and the Infanticide Act (Northern Ireland), 1939.

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