{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-northern-ireland-1968/schedule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-northern-ireland-1968/schedule-1.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1968/34",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-northern-ireland-1968",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "OFFENCES AGAINST CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS WITH RESPECT TO WHICH SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT APPLY",
  "text": "The murder or manslaughter of a child or young person.\nInfanticide.\nAn offence under section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004, in respect of a child or young person.\nAn offence under section 13(1) of the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (encouraging or assisting suicide) where the relevant act is an act capable of, and done with the intention of, encouraging or assisting the suicide of a child or young person.\nAn offence under section 184(1) of the Online Safety Act 2023 (encouraging or assisting serious self-harm) where the relevant act is an act capable of, and done with the intention of, encouraging or assisting the serious self-harm of a child or young person.\nAny offence under section 27,. . . of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 , and any offence against a child or young person under section 42 or 43 of that Act.\nAny offence under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 .\n. . .\n. . .\nAny offence under sections 20, . . . , 23, 24, and 29.\nAny other offence involving mental or bodily injury to a child or young person.\nAny attempt to commit against a child or young person an offence under. . . the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, . . . .\n. . .\nAny offence under the Child Abduction (Northern Ireland) Order 1985.\nAny offence under Article 147(2) of the Children Order in respect of a contravention of Article 141 of that Order.\n. . .\n...\nAny offence against a child or young person under the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 or any attempt to commit such an offence\nAn offence against a child or young person under section 1 or 2 of the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 or any attempt to commit such an offence.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1978 NI 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "2004 c.28"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1: entry substituted (1.2.2010) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), ss. 177(1), 182(5), Sch. 21 para. 57 (with savings in s. 180); S.I. 2010/145, art. 2(2), Sch. paras. 18(a), 25(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 inserted (31.1.2024) by Online Safety Act 2023 (c. 50), s. 240(1), Sch. 14 para. 8; S.I. 2024/31, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 1: words in the entry relating to the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 repealed (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, 83, Sch. 1 para. 12(4)(a)(i), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 1: words in the entry for the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 substituted (2.2.2009) by virtue of Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, Sch. 1 para. 12(4)(a)(ii); S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. 1: entry relating to the Punishment of Incest Act 1908 repealed (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, 83, Sch. 1 para. 12(4)(b), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Sch. 1: entry relating to the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 repealed (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, 83, Sch. 1 para. 12(4)(d), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Sch. 1: words in the entry relating to the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 itself repealed (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, 83, Sch. 1 para. 12(4)(c), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "1995 NI 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "2003 NI 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Sch. 1: words in the entry relating to attempts to commit an offence against a child or young person repealed (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, 83, Sch. 1 para. 12(4)(e), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Sch. 1: entry relating to the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 repealed (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, 83, Sch. 1 para. 12(4)(f), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "1985 NI 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Sch. 1: entry relating to the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 repealed (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, 83, Sch. 1 para. 12(4)(g), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Sch. 1: entry relating to Sexual Offences Act 2003 repealed (14.1.2015) by by Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 2), s. 28(2), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Sch. 1: entry inserted (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, Sch. 1 para. 12(4)(i); S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 added (14.1.2015) by Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 2), s. 28(2), Sch. 4 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1861 c. 100"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1885 c. 69"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1968/34/schedule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:59.398524+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}