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As initiated
CONTENTS
Section
1. Interpretation
ACTS REFERRED TO
Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 (No. 26)
Bill
entitled
An act to revise the law relating to the main non-fatal offences against the persons and
to provide for connected matters.
In this Act
an injury of another caused by the piercing of the skin of that other with a syringe
has the meaning it has in section 6 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act
1997;
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assault causing serious harm has the meaning it has in section 4 of the Non-Fatal
Offences against the Person Act 1997;
child means any person under the age of 16 years;
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(1) Where a person (other then a child) is convicted of an offence to which section 2
applies, the Court shall in passing sentence specify as being a minimum period of
imprisonment to be served by that person a period of not less then 3 years.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply where the Court is satisfied where there
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(i) the stage at which he indicated the intention to plead guilty and,
(ii) the circumstances in which the indication was given,
and
(b) whether that person materially assisted in the investigation of the offence.
Short title and commencement
4.
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(1) This Bill may be cited as the Assaults on Elderly Persons Act 2015.
(2) This Act shall come into operation one month after its passing.
BILLE
BILL
(mar a tionscnaodh)
(as initiated)
d ngairtear
entitled
Acht d'athchiri an dl a bhaineann leis na An Act to revise the law relating to the main nonfatal offences against the person and to provide
promhchionta neamh-mharfacha in aghaidh an
for connected matters.
duine agus do dhanamh socr i dtaobh nithe
comhghaolmhara.
17 Feabhra, 2015