1961
Suicide Act, 1961
Ch. 60
767
SCHEDULES
Sections 2 & 3.
FIRST SCHEDULE
Adaptation of Enactments Relating to Murder or Manslaughter
Part I | |
| Enactment and subject matter | Amendment |
| The Coroners (Amendment) Act, 1926– | |
| Section twenty (Effect on coroners’ duties of prosecution for murder, etc.). | The references to murder, manslaughter or infanticide shall apply also to aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring suicide. |
| The Children and Young Persons Act, 1933— | |
| First Schedule (Offences to which special provisions of the Act apply). | The reference to the murder or manslaughter of a child or young person shall apply also to aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the suicide of a child or young person. |
Part II | |
| The Extradition Act, 1870– | |
| First Schedule (List of extradition crimes). | The list of crimes shall include aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring suicide. |
| The Visiting Forces Act, 1952— | |
| Section seven (Effect on coroners’ duties in England, Wales and Northern Ireland of certain proceedings for homicide). | The definition of “homicide” in subsection (6) shall have effect as if after the references to murder, manslaughter and infanticide there were inserted a reference to aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring suicide. |
| Paragraph 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). | In 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”. |
| The Army Act, 1955— | |
| Subsections (4) and (5) of section seventy (Exclusion of court-martial jurisdiction over certain offences committed in the United Kingdom). | At the end of subsection (4) there shall be added the words—
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