{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1966/20",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1966",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Suicide to cease to be a crime.",
  "text": "Notwithstanding any rule of law to the contrary (but without prejudice to sections 13 to 14) it shall no longer be an offence for a person to commit suicide.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 12 substituted (1.2.2010) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), ss. 177(1), 182(5), Sch. 21 para. 56 (with savings in s. 180); S.I. 2010/145, art. 2(2), Sch. paras. 18(a), 25(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/20/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:14.329850+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."
}