60 Encouraging or assisting suicide (Northern Ireland)
Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (2009 c 25) | Legislation

60  Encouraging or assisting suicide (Northern Ireland)

(1)     The Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (c 20) is amended as follows.

(2)     In section 13 (criminal liability for complicity in another's suicide), for subsection (1) substitute—

“(1)     A person (“D”) commits an offence if—

(a)     D does an act capable of encouraging or assisting the suicide or attempted suicide of another person, and

(b)     D's act was intended to encourage or assist suicide or an attempt at suicide.

(1A)     The person referred to in subsection (1)(a) need not be a specific person (or class of persons) known to, or identified

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