Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997
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Abolition of common law offences of assault and battery, kidnapping and false imprisonment. |
28.—(1) The following common law offences are hereby abolished— | |
(a) assault and battery, | ||
(b) assault occasioning actual bodily harm, | ||
(c) kidnapping, and | ||
(d) false imprisonment. | ||
(2) The abolition of the common law offence of kidnapping shall not affect the operation of section 2 of, and paragraph 4 of the Schedule to, the Criminal Law (Jurisdiction) Act, 1976 , and accordingly the said section 2 and the said Schedule shall have effect as if subsection (1) (c) had not been enacted. |