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Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 51 Cited in Amendments 27 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1973 c. 53
Year1973
(1) No person shall suffer death for murder and a person convicted of murder shall, subject to F1Article 45(2) of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (detention of children at Secretary of State’s pleasure) , be sentenced to imprisonment for life.(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(4) For the purpose of any proceedings on or subsequent to a person’s trial on a charge of capital murder, that charge and any plea or finding of guilty of capital murder shall be treated as being or having been a charge, or a plea or finding of guilty, of murder only; and if at the commencement of this Act a person is under a sentence of death for capital murder, the sentence shall have effect as a sentence of imprisonment for life.(5) In this section “capital murder” means a murder which immediately before the commencement of this Act is a capital murder within the meaning of section 10 of the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (8) In section 4 of the (1) In this Act, except so far as the context otherwise requires—
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(2) Any reference in this Act, except so far as the context otherwise requires, to an enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, applied or extended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.(3) Any reference in this Act to an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or to an enactment which that Parliament has power to amend shall be construed as including a reference to any enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland passed after this Act and re–enacting the said enactment with or without modifications.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) The coming into force of any of the following provisions of this Act, that is to say, sections 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7, . . . (5) Where before the coming into force of section 4(1) above, . . .

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