Visiting Forces Act 1952

1 U.K. 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:—

[F1 (za) [F2 rape and buggery (offences under the law of Northern Ireland);]]

(a) murder, manslaughter, F3 ... [F4 , torture], F3 ... [F5 robbery] and assault [F6 and any offence [F7 under section 2(1) of the Suicide Act 1961 or section 13(1) of the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (encouraging or assisting 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 M1 Person Act, 1861, except section fifty-seven thereof (which relates to bigamy);

F8 (ii) the M2 Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885;

(iii) the M3 Punishment of Incest Act, 1908;

[F9 (iv) F10 . . . section eighty-nine of the M4 Mental Health Act (Northern Ireland), 1948 (which relate respectively to certain offences against mentally defective females); ]

F11 (v) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(vi) sections one to five and section eleven of the M5 Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, and sections eleven, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen and twenty-one of the M6 Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland), 1950; and

(vii) the M7 Infanticide Act, 1938 and the M8 Infanticide Act (Northern Ireland), 1939; [F12 and

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

F13 (viii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F14 (ix) section 1(1)(a) of the Protection of Children Act 1978 ]

[F15 (x) the Child Abduction Act 1984.]

[F16 [F17 (xi) [F18 sections 1 to 3 of] the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003;]

[F19 (xii) the Child Abduction (Northern Ireland) Order 1985]

[F20 (xiii) Part 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.]

[F21 (xiv) the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008.]

[F22 (xv) sections 1 and 2 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015;]

[F23 (xvi) section 184 of the Online Safety Act 2023;]

[F24 (c) 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. ]

[F25 (d) 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]

[F26 (e) an offence of making such a threat as is mentioned in section 3 of the United Nations Personnel Act 1997 and any of the following offences against a UN worker within the meaning of that Act—

(i) an offence of kidnapping;

(ii) an offence of false imprisonment;

(iii) an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 of causing an explosion likely to endanger life.]]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. para. 1(za) inserted (1.5.2004) by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), Sch. 6 para 8(2)

F2 Sch. para 1(za) repealed (N.I.) (2.2.2009) by The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(a),

F3 Words in Sch. para. 1(a) repealed (1.5.2004) by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), s. 141, Sch. 6 para. 8(3), Sch. 7; S.I. 2004/874, art. 2

F4 Word inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 170(1), Sch. 15 para. 15

F5 Word inserted (E.W.) by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), Sch. 2 Pt. III and (N.I.) by Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 16), Sch. 2

F6 Words inserted by Suicide Act 1961 (c. 60), s. 3(3), Sch. 1 Pt. II

F7 Words in Sch. para. 1(a) substituted (1.2.2010) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), s. 182(5), Sch. 21 para. 54(b) (with s. 180); S.I. 2010/145, art. 2(2), Sch. para. 25(a)

F8 Sch. para 1(b)(ii)(iii) repealed (E.W.) by Sexual Offences Act 1956 (c. 69), S. 52, Sch.4

F9 Sch. para. 1(b)(iv) repealed (N.I.) (2.2.2009) by The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(b), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2

F10 Words repealed by Sexual Offences Act 1956 (c. 69), Sch. 4

F11 Sch. paras. 1(b)(v), 3(a)(d)(e) repealed (E.W.) (S.) by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), s. 33(3), Sch. 3 Pt. III and (N.I.) by Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 16), Sch. 3 Pt. II

F12 Sch. para. 1(b)(vii)(A) added (N.I.) by S.I. 1978/1047 (N.I.), art. 9

F13 Sch. para. 1(b)(viii) repealed (1.5.2004) by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), s. 141, Sch. 7; S.I. 2004/874, art. 2

F14 Sch. para. 1(b)(ix) added (E.W.) by Protection of Children Act 1978 (c. 37, SIF 39:5), s. 1(7)

F15 Sch. para. 1(b)(x) inserted (E.W.) by Child Abduction Act 1984 (c. 37, SIF 39:4), s. 11(1)

F16 Sch. para. 1(b)(xi) substituted (3.3.2004) by Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c. 31), ss. 7(2), 8(2) (with s. 8(5)); S.I. 2004/286, art. 2

F17 Sch. para. 1(b)(xi) inserted by Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 (c. 38, SIF 39:4), s. 3(2)

F18 Words in Sch. para. 1(b)(xi) inserted (3.5.2015) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), s. 88(1), Sch. 4 para. 1; S.I. 2015/820, reg. 2(r)(i)

F19 Sch. para. 1(b)(xii) inserted by S.I. 1985/1638 (N.I. 17), art. 7(1)

F20 Sch. para. 1(xiii) inserted (1.5.2004) by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), Sch. 6 para 8(4)

F21 Sch. para 1(b)(xiv) repealed (N.I.) (2.2.2009) by The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(c)

F22 Sch. para. 1(b)(xv) inserted (E.W.) (17.3.2016) by The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/244), regs. 1(1), 3

F23 Sch. para. 1(b)(xvi) inserted (31.1.2024) by Online Safety Act 2023 (c. 50), s. 240(1), Sch. 14 para. 7(2); S.I. 2024/31, reg. 2

F24 Sch. para. 1(c) added by Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 (c. 17, SIF 39:2), s. 2(4)(a)

F25 Sch. para. 1(d) added (2.10.1991) by Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983 (c. 18, SIF 8), ss. 4(2)(a), 8(2); S.I. 1991/1716, art. 2

F26 Sch. para. 1(e) inserted (27.4.1997) by United Nations Personnel Act 1997 (c. 13), ss. 7, 10(2), Sch. para. 1(2)

Marginal Citations

M1 1861 c. 100.

M2 1885 c. 69.

M3 1908 c. 45.

M4 1948 c. 17 (N.I.)

M5 1933 c. 12.

M6 1950 c. 5 (N.I.)

M7 1938 c. 36.

M8 1939 c. 5 (N.I.)