{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-8.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/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Abolition of “constructive malice” in killings in course or furtherance of other offences.",
  "text": "Where a person kills another—\n(a) in the course or furtherance of some other offence; or\n(b) in the course or for the purpose of resisting an officer of justice, or of resisting or avoiding or preventing a lawful arrest, or of effecting or assisting an escape or rescue from legal custody;\nthe killing shall not be murder unless done with the same malice aforethought (express or implied) as is required for a killing to amount to murder in other cases.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/20/section/8",
    "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."
}