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Several offences of assault exist in Northern Ireland. The Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100) creates the offences of: Common assault and battery: a summary offence, under section 42; Aggravated assault and battery: a summary offence, under section 43; Common assault: under section 47
For offences of aggravated assault, see Assault#England and Wales. Administering poison, so as to endanger life, contrary to section 23 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 [7] Administering poison, contrary to section 24 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 [7]
The common law offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm was abolished, [10] and section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 was repealed, [11] on a date three months after 19 May 1997. [12] The modern offences of assault, assault causing harm, and causing serious harm were created by that Act. [13]
The United Kingdom includes all violence against the person including sexual offences, as violent crime. [23] Today, violent crimes are considered the most heinous whereas historically, according to Simon Dedo, crimes against property were equally important. [ 24 ]
Non-fatal offences against the person mainly derive from the Offences against the Person Act 1861, although no definition of assault or battery is given there. Offences against the person include minor forms of battery (any unlawful touching of another person); its complementary offence, assault (causing the apprehension of a battery, even when ...
Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829; Offences Against the Person Act; Offences Against the Person Act 1828; Offences Against the Person Act 1837; Offences Against the Person Act 1861; Offences Against the Person Act 1875
Much of the violence was targeted towards Muslim and migrant communities. Over the course of six days, the rioting became the largest incident of social unrest in the UK since the 2011 riots.
The Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.It consolidated provisions related to offences against the person (an expression which, in particular, includes offences of violence) from a number of earlier statutes into a single Act.