{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1945/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1945/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1945/15",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1945",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Abolition of presumption of coercion of married woman by husband.",
  "text": "Any presumption of law that an offence committed by a wife in the presence of her husband is committed under the coercion of the husband is hereby abolished, but on a charge against a spouse or civil partner for any offence other than treason or murder it shall be a good defence to prove that the offence was committed in the presence of, and under the coercion of, the other spouse or civil partner .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 37 substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 124(a) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 37 substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 124(b) (with regs. 6-9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1945/15/section/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:42:51.819997+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."
}