{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suicide-act-1961/section-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suicide-act-1961/section-2A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/60",
  "legislation_title": "Suicide Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suicide-act-1961",
  "path": "section/2A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Acts capable of encouraging or assisting",
  "text": "(1) If D arranges for a person (“D2”) to do an act that is capable of encouraging or assisting the suicide or attempted suicide of another person and D2 does that act, D is also to be treated for the purposes of this Act as having done it.\n(2) Where the facts are such that an act is not capable of encouraging or assisting suicide or attempted suicide, for the purposes of this Act it is to be treated as so capable if the act would have been so capable had the facts been as D believed them to be at the time of the act or had subsequent events happened in the manner D believed they would happen (or both).\n(3) A reference in this Act to a person (“P”) doing an act that is capable of encouraging the suicide or attempted suicide of another person includes a reference to P doing so by threatening another person or otherwise putting pressure on another person to commit or attempt suicide.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 2A - 2B inserted (1.2.2010) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), ss. 59(4), 182(5) (with s. 180, Sch. 22 para. 7Sch. 22 para. 10); S.I. 2010/145, art. 2(2), Sch. para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/60/section/2A",
    "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."
}