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An Act to make provision with respect to the following matters in Northern Ireland, that is to say, proceedings for and the punishment of certain offences, the detention of terrorists, the preservation of the peace, the maintenance of order and the detection of crime and to proscribe and make other provision in connection with certain organisations there, and for connected purposes.
[25th July 1973]
(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.
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F2(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 M1Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966.
F1Words in s. 1(1)(3) substituted (31.1.1999) by S.I. 1998/1504 (N.I. 9), art. 65(1), Sch. 5 para. 6; S.R. 1999/25, art. 2
F2S. 1(2)(3) repealed (8.10.2001) by S.I. 2001/2564 (N.I. 2), art. 13(2), Sch. 3; S.R. 2001/337, art. 2
M11966 c. 20 (N.I.)
F1Ss. 2–4 repealed by Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 (c. 5), Sch. 6 Pt. I
F1S. 5 repealed by Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) (Amendment) Act 1975 (c. 62), s. 7, Sch. 3
F1Ss. 6–8 repealed by Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 (c. 5), Sch. 6 Pt. I
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F1S. 9(1)-(5) repealed (31.1.1999) by S.I. 1998/1504, art. 65(2), Sch. 6; S.R. 1999/25, art. 2
C1The text of s. 9(2)–(5) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973