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Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1975

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Section 4(1).

SCHEDULE 2Amendments of Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973

1(1)Schedule 4 to the [1973 c. 53.] Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973 (offences to which Part I of the Act relates) shall be amended as follows.

(2)After paragraph 4 there shall be inserted—

“4AKidnapping.

4BFalse imprisonment.”

(3)In paragraph 5 (malicious damage) after sub-paragraph (n) there shall be inserted—

“(o)section 35 (interference with railway)”.

(4)After paragraph 11 there shall be inserted—

“Hijacking

11AOffences under section 1 of the Hijacking Act 1971.

11BOffences in Northern Ireland under section 2 of the Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1975”.

2(1)Part III of the said Schedule 4 (added by section 4 of this Act) and, so far as they relate to offences which become scheduled offences by virtue of the said Part III, sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973, shall be permanent provisions which do not expire or cease to be in force under section 30 of that Act.

(2)If the indictment was presented before the coming into force of paragraph 1 of this Schedule, sections 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the said Act of 1973 shall not apply to the trial of the indictment.

(3)If an offence becomes a scheduled offence on the date of the coming into force of paragraph 1 of this Schedule, and the indictment has not been presented then on that date—

(a)any committal for trial of the offence by a court of assize other than the Belfast City Commission shall be treated as a committal to that Commission, and

(b)any committal for trial of the offence by a county court other than the Belfast Recorder's Court shall be treated as a committal to the Belfast Recorder's Court.

3(1)Section 27 of the said Act of 1973 shall be amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1) after the words " Part I" there shall be inserted " or Part III ", and for " that Part " there shall be substituted " Part I " . '

(3)For subsection (3) of the said section 27 there shall be substituted—

“(3)The Secretary of State may by order amend Part I and Part II of Schedule 4 to this Act (whether by adding an offence to, or removing an offence from, either of those Parts, or otherwise).”

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