SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9 Scheduled Offences

Part I Substantive Offences

Notes

1

Any offence specified in this Part of this Schedule F1. . . is not a scheduled offence in any particular case in which the F2 Advocate General for Northern Ireland certifies that it is not to be treated as a scheduled offence.

2

An offence specified in F3paragraph 10(a) or (c) or 23 is a scheduled offence only where it is charged that the offence was committed in relation to or by means of nuclear material within the meaning of the M1Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983 F4. . .

3

An offence specified in paragraph 10(b) or (d) is a scheduled offence only where it is charged—

(a)

that an explosive, firearm, imitation firearm or weapon of offence was used to commit the offence, or

(b)

that the offence was committed in relation to or by means of nuclear material within the meaning of the M2Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983;

and expressions defined in section 10 of the M3Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 have the same meaning when used in this note.

4

The offence specified in paragraph 16(g) is a scheduled offence only where it is charged that the offence relates to a weapon other than an air weapon.

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Notes 2 to 4 are subject to note 1.