Housing Act 1985

[F1 Violent offences E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2A inserted (20.10.2014 for E., 21.10.2014 fro W.) by Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), s. 185(1)(2)(c)(3)(a), Sch. 3 (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93); S.I. 2014/2590, art. 2(g); S.I. 2014/2830, art. 2(a)

1 E+W Murder.

2 E+W Manslaughter.

3 E+W Kidnapping.

4 E+W False imprisonment.

5 E+W An offence under any of the following sections of the Offences against the Person Act 1861—

(a) section 4 (soliciting murder),

(b) section 16 (threats to kill),

(c) section 18 (wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm),

(d) section 20 (malicious wounding),

(e) section 21 (attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle in order to commit or assist in committing an indictable offence),

(f) section 22 (using chloroform etc. to commit or assist in the committing of any indictable offence),

(g) section 23 (maliciously administering poison etc. so as to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm),

(h) section 24 (maliciously administering poison etc. with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy any other person),

(i) section 27 (abandoning or exposing children whereby life is endangered or health permanently injured),

(j) section 28 (causing bodily injury by explosives),

(k) section 29 (using explosives etc. with intent to do grievous bodily harm),

(l) section 30 (placing explosives with intent to do bodily injury),

(m) section 31 (setting spring guns etc. with intent to do grievous bodily harm),

(n) section 38 (assault with intent to resist arrest),

(o) section 47 (assault occasioning actual bodily harm).

6 E+W An offence under any of the following sections of the Explosive Substances Act 1883—

(a) section 2 (causing explosion likely to endanger life or property),

(b) section 3 (attempt to cause explosion, or making or keeping explosive with intent to endanger life or property),

(c) section 4 (making or possession of explosive under suspicious circumstances).

7 E+W An offence under section 1 of the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 (child destruction).

8 E+W An offence under section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (cruelty to children).

9 E+W An offence under section 1 of the Infanticide Act 1938 (infanticide).

10 E+W An offence under any of the following sections of the Public Order Act 1986—

(a) section 1 (riot),

(b) section 2 (violent disorder),

(c) section 3 (affray).

11 E+W An offence under either of the following sections of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997—

(a) section 4 (putting people in fear of violence),

(b) section 4A (stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm or distress).

12 E+W An offence under any of the following provisions of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998—

(a) section 29 (racially or religiously aggravated assaults),

(b) section 31(1)(a) or (b) (racially or religiously aggravated offences under section 4 or 4A of the Public Order Act 1986),

(c) section 32 (racially or religiously aggravated harassment etc. ).

13 E+W An offence under either of the following sections of the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003—

(a) section 1 (female genital mutilation),

(b) section 2 (assisting a girl to mutilate her own genitalia).

14 E+W An offence under section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult).]

[F2 14A E+W An offence under section 75A of the Serious Crime Act 2015 (strangulation or suffocation).]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 2A para. 14A inserted (7.6.2022) by Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (c. 17), s. 90(6), Sch. 2 para. 2; S.I. 2022/553, regs. 1(2), 3(b)