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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1981/1675",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following offences under the Offences against the Person Act 1861—\n(a) offences under—\n(i) section 16 (threats to kill);\n(ii) section 20 (inflicting bodily injury, with or without a weapon);\n(iii) section 26 (not providing apprentices or servants with food etc.;\n(iv) section 27 (abandoning or exposing child);\n(v) section 34 (doing or omitting to do anything so as to endanger railway passengers);\n(vi) section 36 (assaulting a clergyman at a place of worship etc.,);\n(via) section 47 (assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault);\n(vii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(viii) section 57 (bigamy);\n(b) offences of concealing the birth of a child under section 60 (but only where it is not alleged that the child died other than from natural causes);\nSub‐para. (c) rep. by 2003 NI 13",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1986 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1996 NI 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5(a)(vii) repealed (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, 83, Sch. 1 para. 15(a), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:00.143829+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."
}