{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1978-repealed-2781991/schedule-4/paragraph-20",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/5",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 (Repealed 27.8.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1978-repealed-2781991",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Each of the following offences, that is to say—\n(a) aiding, abetting, counselling, procuring or inciting the commission of an offence specified in Part I of this Schedule (hereafter in this paragraph referred to as a “substantive offence”);\n(b) attempting or conspiring to commit a substantive offence;\n(c) an offence under section 4 of the Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 of doing any act with intent to impede the arrest or prosecution of a person who has committed a substantive offence;\n(d) an offence under section 5(1) of the Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 of failing to give information to a constable which is likely to secure, or to be of material assistance in securing, the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of a person for a substantive offence,\nshall be treated for the purposes of this Act as if it were the substantive offence.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1967 c. 18 (N.I.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1967 c.18 (N.I.)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/5/schedule/4/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:13.600183+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."
}