The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, Paragraph 5 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 08 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
[F15. The following offences under the Offences against the Person Act 1861—N.I.
(a)offences under—
(i)section 16 (threats to kill);
(ii)section 20 (inflicting bodily injury, with or without a weapon);
(iii)section 26 (not providing apprentices or servants with food etc.;
(iv)section 27 (abandoning or exposing child);
(v)section 34 (doing or omitting to do anything so as to endanger railway passengers);
(vi)section 36 (assaulting a clergyman at a place of worship etc.,);
[F2(via)section 47 (assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault);]
(vii)F3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(viii)section 57 (bigamy);
(b)offences of concealing the birth of a child under section 60 (but only where it is not alleged that the child died other than from natural causes);
Sub‐para. (c) rep. by 2003 NI 13]
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