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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/20/section/12</dc:identifier><dc:title>Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to make certain provision with respect to responsibility for offences and with respect to homicide and suicide; to provide for an appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal against a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity and to empower that Court to order a new trial; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid or any of them.</dc:description><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2015-07-21</dc:modified><dct:valid>2011-06-01</dct:valid>
					
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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/20/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1966/20/body" NumberOfProvisions="14" RestrictStartDate="2006-01-01"><Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/20/part/II" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1966/20/part/II" NumberOfProvisions="9" RestrictExtent="N.I." RestrictStartDate="2010-02-01" id="part-II"><Number>PART II</Number><Title>Homicide and suicide</Title><P1group RestrictExtent="N.I." RestrictStartDate="2010-02-01"><Title>Suicide to cease to be a crime.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/20/section/12" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1966/20/section/12" id="section-12"><Pnumber>12</Pnumber><P1para><Text>Notwithstanding any rule of law to the contrary (but without prejudice to sections  <Substitution ChangeId="d29p375" CommentaryRef="c2130920">13 to 14</Substitution>) it shall no longer be an offence for a person to commit suicide.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c2130920" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words in <CitationSubRef id="c00041" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/apni/1966/20/section/12" SectionRef="section-12">s. 12</CitationSubRef> substituted (1.2.2010) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/25" id="c00042" Year="2009" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="25" Title="Coroners and Justice Act 2009">Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00043" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/25/section/177/1" CitationRef="c00042" SectionRef="section-177-1">ss. 177(1)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00044" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/25/section/182/5" CitationRef="c00042" SectionRef="section-182-5">182(5)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00045" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/25/schedule/21/paragraph/56" CitationRef="c00042" SectionRef="schedule-21-paragraph-56" Operative="true">Sch. 21 para. 56</CitationSubRef> (with savings in <CitationSubRef id="c00046" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/25/section/180" CitationRef="c00042" SectionRef="section-180">s. 180</CitationSubRef>); <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2010/145" id="c00047" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2010" Number="145">S.I. 2010/145</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00048" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2010/145/article/2/2" CitationRef="c00047" SectionRef="article-2-2" Operative="true">art. 2(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00049" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2010/145/schedule/paragraph/18/a" CitationRef="c00047" SectionRef="schedule-paragraph-18-a">Sch. paras. 18(a)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00050" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2010/145/schedule/paragraph/25/a" CitationRef="c00047" SectionRef="schedule-paragraph-25-a">25(a)</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>