Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (c. 20)

PART II N.I. Homicide and suicide

8 Abolition of “constructive malice” in killings in course or furtherance of other offences. N.I.

Where a person kills another—

(a) in the course or furtherance of some other offence; or

(b) in the course or for the purpose of resisting an officer of justice, or of resisting or avoiding or preventing a lawful arrest, or of effecting or assisting an escape or rescue from legal custody;

the killing shall not be murder unless done with the same malice aforethought (express or implied) as is required for a killing to amount to murder in other cases.