Visiting Forces Act 1952

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Sch. para. 1(b)(xiv) inserted by S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I.) Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(c)
Sch. para. 1(za) inserted by 2003 c. 42 Sch. 6 para. 8(2)
Sch. para. 1(b)(xiii) inserted by 2003 c. 42 Sch. 6 para. 8(4)
Sch. para. 1(b)(iv) repealed by S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I.) Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(b) Sch. 3
Sch. para. 1(za) repealed by S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I.) Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(a) Sch. 3
Sch. para. 1(b)(viii) repealed by 2003 c. 42 Sch. 7
Sch. para. 1(b)(xi) substituted by 2003 c. 31 s. 7(2)
Sch. para. 1(a) words repealed by 2003 c. 42 Sch. 6 para. 8(3) Sch. 7
Sch. para. 1(a) words substituted by 2009 c. 25 Sch. 21 para. 54(b)

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s. 9A inserted by 2011 c. 18 s. 25

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S.I. 2004/286 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 31)
S.I. 2004/874 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 42)
S.I. 2006/3200 art. 2 commences (2006 c. 35)
S.I. 2009/812 art. 3 commences (2006 c. 52)
S.I. 2009/1059 Order transitional provisions for effects of commencing SI 2009/812
S.I. 2009/1167 art. 3 4 commences (2006 c. 52)
S.I. 2010/145 art. 2 Sch. commences (2009 c. 25)
S.R. 2008/510 art. 2 commences (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I.))

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:—E+W+S+N.I.

(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);

F4(ii)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);

(v). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6

(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]

[F8(viii)sections two to twenty-eight of the M9Sexual Offences Act 1956.]

[F9(ix)section 1(1)(a) of the Protection of Children Act 1978]

[F10(x)the Child Abduction Act 1984.]

[F11(xi)section 1 of the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985.]

[F12(xii)the Child Abduction (Northern Ireland) Order 1985]

[F13(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.]

[F14(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]

[F15(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.]

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F1Word inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 170(1), Sch. 15 para. 15

F2Word 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

F3Words inserted by Suicide Act 1961 (c. 60), s. 3(3), Sch. 1 Pt. II

F4Para 1(b)(ii)(iii)repealed (E.W.)by Sexual Offences Act 1956 (c.69), S. 52, Sch.4

F5Words repealed by Sexual Offences Act 1956 (c. 69), Sch. 4

F6Sch. 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