Appointed day3

The day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the 2009 Act is 1st June 2011—

a

section 53 (persons suffering from diminished responsibility (Northern Ireland));

b

sections 54 and 55 (partial defence to murder; loss of control);

c

section 56(1) (abolition of common law defence of provocation);

d

section 56(2)(b) (repeal relating to abolition of common law defence of provocation);

e

section 58 (infanticide (Northern Ireland));

f

section 178, so far as it relates to the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (g);

g

in Part 2 of Schedule 23 (criminal offences), the repeal relating to the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966.