{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suicide-act-1961/schedule-FIRST/part-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suicide-act-1961/schedule-FIRST/part-II.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/60",
  "legislation_title": "Suicide Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suicide-act-1961",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/part/II",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Amendments not Limited to England and Wales.",
  "text": "Enactment and subject matter.\nAmendment.\n. . .\nThe list of crimes shall include aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring suicide.\nThe Visiting Forces Act, 1952—\n. . .\n. . .\nParagraph 1 of the Schedule (Offences not triable by courts of England, Wales or Northern Ireland in the cases provided for by section three of the Act).\nIn sub-paragraph (a) (which provides that murder and certain other offences are to be comprised in the expression “offences against the person”) after the word “assault” there shall be inserted the words “and any offence of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring suicide or an attempt to commit suicide”.\nThe Army Act, 1955—\nSubsections (4) and (5) of section seventy (Exclusion of court-martial jurisdiction over certain offences committed in the United Kingdom).\nAt the end of subsection (4) there shall be added the words— “In this and the following subsection the references to murder shall apply also to aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring suicide”.\nThe Air Force Act, 1955—\nSubsections (4) and (5) of section seventy (Exclusion of court-martial jurisdiction over certain offences committed in the United Kingdom).\nAt the end of subsection (4) there shall be added the following words— “In this and the following subsection the references to murder shall apply also to aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring suicide”.\nThe Naval Discipline Act, 1957—\nSubsection (2) of section forty-eight (Exclusion of court-martial jurisdiction over certain offences committed in the United kingdom).\nAt the end of the subsection there shall be added the words— “In this subsection the references to murder shall apply also to aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring suicide”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. II entry relating to Extradition Act 1870 repealed by Extradition Act 1989 (c. 33, SIF 48), s. 37, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. II entry repealed (1.2.2010) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), s. 182(5), Sch. 21 para. 55(b), Sch. 23 Pt. 2 (with s. 180); S.I. 2010/145, art. 2(2), Sch. paras. 25(a), 27(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of Sch. 1 Pt. II is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as indicated, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/60/schedule/FIRST/part/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:09:49.251361+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."
}