{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-act-1952/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/67",
  "legislation_title": "Visiting Forces Act 1952",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-act-1952",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the application of the said section three to Scotland, the expression “offence against the person” means any of the following offences, that is to say:—\n(a) murder, culpable homicide, rape , torture, robbery, assault, incest, sodomy, lewd, indecent and libidinous practices, procuring abortion, abduction, cruel and unnatural treatment of persons, threats to murder or to injure persons; and\n(b) any offence not falling within the last foregoing sub-paragraph, being an offence punishable under any of the following enactments:—\n(i) the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885;\n(ii) section forty-six of the Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (which relates to certain offences against mentally defective females); and\n(iii) sections twelve to sixteen and twenty-two of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1937.\n(iv) section 52(1)(a) of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982.\n(v) section 184 of the Online Safety Act 2023;\n(c) an offence of making such a threat as is mentioned in subsection (3)(a) of section 1 of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 and the following offence against a protected person within the meaning of that section, namely, an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 of causing an explosion likely to endanger life.\n(d) an offence under section 2 of the Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983, where the circumstances are that—\n(i) in the case of a contravention of subsection (2); the act falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of that subsection would, had it been done, have constituted an offence falling within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph, or\n(ii) in the case of a contravention of subsection (3) or (4), the act threatened would, had it been done, have constituted such an offence\n(e) an offence of making such a threat as is mentioned in section 3 of the United Nations Personnel Act 1997 and an offence of causing an explosion likely to endanger life, committed against a UN worker (within the meaning of that Act), under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 170(1), Sch. 15 para. 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word repealed (S.) by Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 45, SIF 81:2), s. 52(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2(b)(iv) added (S.) by Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 45, SIF 81:2), s. 52(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2(b)(v) inserted (31.1.2024) by Online Safety Act 2023 (c. 50), s. 240(1), Sch. 14 para. 7(3); S.I. 2024/31, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2(c) added by Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 (c. 17, SIF 39:2), s. 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2(d) added (2.10.1991) by Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983 (c. 18, SIF 8), ss. 4(2)(a), 8(2); S.I. 1991/1716, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2(e) inserted (27.4.1997) by 1997 c. 13, ss. 7, 10(2), Sch. para. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1885 c. 69."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1913 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1937 c. 37."
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:10.434610+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."
}