Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973

Part I N.I. Trial and Punishment of Certain Offences

1 Punishment for murder. N.I.

(1) No person shall suffer death for murder and a person convicted of murder shall, subject to [F1 Article 45(2) of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (detention of children at Secretary of State’s pleasure)], be sentenced to imprisonment for life.

F2 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F2 (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) For the purpose of any proceedings on or subsequent to a person’s trial on a charge of capital murder, that charge and any plea or finding of guilty of capital murder shall be treated as being or having been a charge, or a plea or finding of guilty, of murder only; and if at the commencement of this Act a person is under a sentence of death for capital murder, the sentence shall have effect as a sentence of imprisonment for life.

(5) In this section “capital murder” means a murder which immediately before the commencement of this Act is a capital murder within the meaning of section 10 of the M1 Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 1(1)(3) substituted (31.1.1999) by S.I. 1998/1504 (N.I. 9), art. 65(1), Sch. 5 para. 6; S.R. 1999/25, art. 2

F2 S. 1(2)(3) repealed (8.10.2001) by S.I. 2001/2564 (N.I. 2), art. 13(2), Sch. 3; S.R. 2001/337, art. 2

Marginal Citations

M1 1966 c. 20 (N.I.)

2—4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3 N.I.

Textual Amendments

F3 Ss. 2–4 repealed by Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 (c. 5), Sch. 6 Pt. I

5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4 N.I.

Textual Amendments

F4 S. 5 repealed by Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) (Amendment) Act 1975 (c. 62), s. 7, Sch. 3

6–8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 N.I.

Textual Amendments

F5 Ss. 6–8 repealed by Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 (c. 5), Sch. 6 Pt. I

9 Remand homes and training schools. N.I.

F6 (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F6 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F6 (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F6 (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F6 (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F6 S. 9(1)-(5) repealed (31.1.1999) by S.I. 1998/1504, art. 65(2), Sch. 6; S.R. 1999/25, art. 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of s. 9(2)–(5) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.