"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C 

(a) firearms,

(b) explosives, or

(c) chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

(a) firearms,

(b) explosives, or

(c) chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

(a) would constitute an offence under subsection (2), or

(b) would constitute an offence under subsection (2) but for the fact that it is to take place outside the United Kingdom.

(a) a reference to the provision of instruction includes a reference to making it available either generally or to one or more specific persons, and

(b) an invitation to receive instruction or training may be either general or addressed to one or more specific persons.

(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, to a fine or to both, or

(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both.

"biological weapon" means anything to which section 1(1)(b) of the Biological Weapons Act 1974 applies,

"chemical weapon" has the meaning given by section 1 of the Chemical Weapons Act 1996, and

"nuclear weapon" means a weapon which contains nuclear material within the meaning of Article 1(a) and (b) of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material opened for signature at Vienna and New York on 3rd March 1980 (set out in the Schedule to the Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983).

(a) was on any premises at the same time as the accused, or

(b) was on premises of which the accused was the occupier or which he habitually used otherwise than as a member of the public,

(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, to a fine or to both, or

(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both.

(a) he collects or makes a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, or

(b) he possesses a document or record containing information of that kind.

(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, to a fine or to both, or

(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both.

(a) he incites another person to commit an act of terrorism wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom, and

(b) the act would, if committed in England and Wales, constitute one of the offences listed in subsection (2).

(a) murder,

(b) an offence under section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (wounding with intent),

(c) an offence under section 23 or 24 of that Act (poison),

(d) an offence under section 28 or 29 of that Act (explosions), and

(e) an offence under section 1(2) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 (endangering life by damaging property).

(a) he incites another person to commit an act of terrorism wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom, and

(b) the act would, if committed in Northern Ireland, constitute one of the offences listed in subsection (2).

(a) murder,

(b) an offence under section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (wounding with intent),

(c) an offence under section 23 or 24 of that Act (poison),

(d) an offence under section 28 or 29 of that Act (explosions), and

(e) an offence under Article 3(2) of the {/ci}Criminal Damage (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (endangering life by damaging property).

(a) he incites another person to commit an act of terrorism wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom, and

(b) the act would, if committed in Scotland, constitute one of the offences listed in subsection (2).

(a) murder,

(b) assault to severe injury, and

(c) reckless conduct which causes actual injury.

(a) a person does anything outside the United Kingdom as an act of terrorism or for the purposes of terrorism, and

(b) his action would have constituted the commission of one of the offences listed in subsection (2) if it had been done in the United Kingdom,

(a) an offence under section 2, 3 or 5 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 (causing explosions, &c.),

(b) an offence under section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act 1974 (biological weapons), and

(c) an offence under section 2 of the Chemical Weapons Act 1996 (chemical weapons).

(a) a person does anything outside the United Kingdom, and

(b) his action would have constituted the commission of an offence under any of sections 15 to 18 if it had been done in the United Kingdom,

(a) offences under the provisions mentioned in sections 62(2) and 63(1)(b),

(b) conspiracy to commit any of those offences, and

(c) attempt to commit any of those offences.

(a) add an offence to Part I or II of Schedule 9;

(b) remove an offence from Part I or II of that Schedule;

(c) amend Part I or II of that Schedule in some other way.

(a) shall apply notwithstanding anything in Article 31 of that Order,

(b) shall not apply in respect of an offence where the court considers that in the interests of justice a preliminary investigation should be conducted into the offence under that Order, and

(c) shall not apply in respect of an extra-territorial offence (as defined in section 1(3) of the Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1975)).

(a) has attained the age of fourteen, and

(b) is charged with a scheduled offence which is neither being tried summarily nor certified by the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland as suitable for summary trial.

(a) by a judge of the High Court or the Court of Appeal, or

(b) by the judge of the court of trial on adjourning the trial of a person charged with a scheduled offence.

(a) fail to surrender to custody,

(b) commit an offence while on bail,

(c) interfere with a witness,

(d) otherwise obstruct or attempt to obstruct the course of justice, whether in relation to himself or another person, or

(e) fail to comply with conditions of release (if any).

(a) the nature and seriousness of the offence with which the person is charged,

(b) the character, antecedents, associations and community ties of the person,

(c) the time which the person has already spent in custody and the time which he is likely to spend in custody if he is not admitted to bail, and

(d) the strength of the evidence of his having committed the offence.

(a) likely to result in the person's appearance at the time and place required, or

(b) necessary in the interests of justice or for the prevention of crime.

(a) any of Her Majesty's forces, or

(b) the Royal Ulster Constabulary or the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve.

(a) bail on that condition may be granted by a judge or a resident magistrate, and

(b) it shall be lawful for the person to be held in military or police custody in accordance with the conditions of his bail.

(a) that a person charged with a scheduled offence intends to apply to be admitted to bail,

(b) that it is desirable in the interests of justice that he should have legal aid, and

(c) that he has not sufficient means to enable him to obtain that aid,

(a) whether his means are sufficient to enable him to obtain legal aid, or

(b) whether it is desirable in the interests of justice that he should have free legal aid,

(a) notwithstanding Article 47(2) and (3) of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, and

(b) whether or not a person is also charged with a non-scheduled offence.

(a) notwithstanding the provisions of any enactment, and

(b) whether or not he was remanded or committed for trial at a time when this section was not in force.

(a) to prevent his escape, or

(b) to ensure his safety or the safety of others.

(a) has attained the age of fourteen, and

(b) has not attained the age of seventeen.

(a) it has previously ceased to have effect, or

(b) it is continued in force by a further direction.

(a) a person is held in custody in a prison or other place by virtue of a direction, and

(b) the direction ceases to have effect (whether or not by reason of the expiry or cesser of section 70),

(a) to be allowed to the prosecution to complete the stage;

(b) during which the accused may, while awaiting completion of the stage, be in the custody of a magistrates' court or the Crown Court in relation to the offence.

(a) provide for a specified law about bail to apply in relation to cases to which custody or overall time limits apply (subject to any modifications which the Secretary of State considers it necessary to specify in the regulations);

(b) provide for time limits to cease to have effect in cases where the Attorney General for Northern Ireland certifies after the institution of proceedings that an offence is not to be treated as a scheduled offence;

(c) make such provision with respect to the procedure to be followed in criminal proceedings as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in consequence of another provision of the regulations;

(d) make provision which has effect in relation to a non-scheduled offence where separate counts of an indictment allege a scheduled offence and a non-scheduled offence;

(e) enable the Crown Court in specified circumstances to extend or further extend a time limit at any time before it expires.

(a) a person escapes from the custody of a magistrates' court or the Crown Court before the expiry of the custody time limit,

(b) a person who has been released on bail in consequence of the expiry of a custody time limit fails to surrender himself into the custody of the court at the appointed time, or

(c) a person who has been released on bail in consequence of the expiry of a custody time limit is arrested by a constable in connection with a breach or apprehended breach of a condition of his bail.

(a) after the time when the case for the prosecution is opened, or

(b) if the court accepts a plea of guilty before the case for the prosecution is opened, after the plea is accepted.

(a) after the court begins to hear evidence for the prosecution at the trial,

(b) if the court accepts a plea of guilty before it has begun to hear evidence for the prosecution, after the plea is accepted, or

(c) after the court begins to consider whether to exercise its power under Article 44(4) of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (power to make hospital order without conviction).

"custody of the Crown Court" includes custody to which a person is committed in pursuance of-

(a) Article 37 or 40(4) of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (magistrates' court committing accused for trial), or

(b) section 51(8) of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (magistrates' court dealing with a person arrested under Crown Court warrant),

"custody of a magistrates' court" means custody to which a person is committed in pursuance of Article 47 or 49 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (remand),

"custody time limit" means a time limit imposed by regulations in pursuance of section 72(1)(b) or, where a limit has been extended by the Crown Court by virtue of section 72(2)(e), the limit as extended,

"law about bail" means-

(a) the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981,

(b) section 67 of this Act,

(c) any other enactment relating to bail, and

(d) any rule of law relating to bail, and

"overall time limit" means a time limit imposed by regulations in pursuance of section 72(1)(a) or, where a limit has been extended by the Crown Court by virtue of section 72(2)(e), the limit as extended.

(a) all periods during which he is in the custody of a magistrates' court in respect of the same offence shall be aggregated and treated as a single continuous period; and

(b) all periods during which he is in the custody of the Crown Court in respect of the same offence shall be aggregated and treated as a single continuous period.

(a) the Lord Chancellor after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland directs that the trial, or a class of trials within which it falls, shall be held at the Crown Court sitting elsewhere, or

(b) the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland directs that the trial, or part of it, shall be held at the Crown Court sitting elsewhere.

(a) to the Crown Court sitting in Belfast, or

(b) where a direction has been given under subsection (1) which concerns the trial, to the Crown Court sitting at the place specified in the direction;

(a) a person is committed for trial to the Crown Court sitting in Belfast in accordance with subsection (2), and

(b) a direction is subsequently given under subsection (1), before the commencement of the trial, altering the place of trial,

(a) is not satisfied that the accused is guilty of the offence, but

(b) is satisfied that he is guilty of a non-scheduled offence of which a jury could have found him guilty on a trial for the scheduled offence,

(a) against his conviction, on any ground, without the leave of the Court of Appeal or a certificate of the judge of the court of trial;

(b) against sentence passed on conviction, without that leave, unless the sentence is fixed by law.

(a) a scheduled offence, or

(b) two or more offences at least one of which is a scheduled offence.

(a) it is relevant to a matter in issue in the proceedings, and

(b) it is not excluded or inadmissible (whether by virtue of subsections (3) to (5) or otherwise).

(a) the prosecution gives or proposes to give a statement made by the accused in evidence,

(b) prima facie evidence is adduced that the accused was subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, violence or the threat of violence in order to induce him to make the statement, and

(c) the prosecution does not satisfy the court that the statement was not obtained in the manner mentioned in paragraph (b).

(a) exclude the statement, or

(b) direct that the trial be restarted before a differently constituted court (before which the statement shall be inadmissible).

(a) disregard it, or

(b) direct that the trial be restarted before a differently constituted court (before which the statement shall be inadmissible).

(a) exclude or ignore a statement, or

(b) direct a trial to be restarted,

(a) was on any premises at the same time as the accused, or

(b) was on premises of which the accused was the occupier or which he habitually used otherwise than as a member of the public,

(a) the scheduled offence is committed while this section is in force,

(b) the offence (being a scheduled offence within the meaning of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996) was committed while section 15 of that Act was in force,

(c) the offence (being a scheduled offence within the meaning of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991) was committed while section 14 of that Act was in force, or

(d) the offence (being a scheduled offence within the meaning of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978) was committed while section 22 of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 was in force.

(a) a person is sentenced to imprisonment or a term of detention in a young offenders centre for a period exceeding one year,

(b) he is discharged from prison or the centre in pursuance of prison rules, and

(c) before his sentence or term would have expired (but for the discharge) he commits, and is convicted on indictment of, a scheduled offence.

(a) a suspended sentence,

(b) a sentence of life imprisonment, or

(c) a sentence of detention during the Secretary of State's pleasure under Article 45(1) of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.

(a) the acquittal of the person concerned, or

(b) the substitution of a sentence other than imprisonment or a term of detention.

(a) shall be taken to be a sentence of imprisonment or term of detention for the purposes of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 and for the purposes of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 other than section 26(2) (reduction for time spent in custody),

(b) shall not be subject to any provision of prison rules for discharge before expiry, and

(c) shall be served before, and be followed by, the sentence or term imposed for the scheduled offence and be disregarded in determining the appropriate length of that sentence or term.

(a) the date on which a person was discharged from prison or a young offenders centre,

(b) the sentence or term which the person was serving at the time of his discharge, the offence in respect of which the sentence or term was imposed and the date on which he was convicted of that offence, and

(c) the date on which the person would, but for his discharge in pursuance of prison rules, have been discharged from prison or a young offenders centre,

"prison rules" means rules made under section 13 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953,

"sentence of imprisonment" does not include a committal in default of payment of any sum of money or for want of sufficient distress to satisfy any sum of money or for failure to do or abstain from doing anything required to be done or left undone, and

"young offenders centre" has the meaning assigned to it by section 2(a) of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968.

(a) a sentence or term passed by a court in the United Kingdom or any of the Islands, and

(b) in the case of imprisonment, a sentence passed by a court-martial on a person found guilty of a civil offence within the meaning of the Army Act 1955, the Air Force Act 1955 and the Naval Discipline Act 1957.

(a) the scheduled offence is committed while this section is in force,

(b) the offence (being a scheduled offence within the meaning of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996) was committed while section 16 of that Act was in force,

(c) the offence (being a scheduled offence within the meaning of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991) was committed while section 15 of that Act was in force, or

(d) the offence (being a scheduled offence within the meaning of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978) was committed while section 23 of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 was in force.

(a) a scheduled offence, or

(b) a non-scheduled offence under this Act.

(a) a scheduled offence, or

(b) a non-scheduled offence under this Act.

(a) arrest the person without warrant, and

(b) detain him for a period not exceeding four hours.

(a) is a terrorist (within the meaning of Part V), or

(b) has committed an offence involving the use or possession of an explosive or firearm,

(a) may seize any explosive found in the course of a search under this section unless it appears to him that it is being, has been and will be used only for a lawful purpose, and

(b) may retain and, if necessary, destroy it.

(a) a member of Her Majesty's forces on duty, or

(b) a constable.

(a) a member of Her Majesty's forces authorised for the purpose by a commissioned officer of those forces, or

(b) a constable authorised for the purpose by an officer of the Royal Ulster Constabulary of at least the rank of inspector.

(a) may examine any document or record found in order to ascertain whether it contains information of the kind mentioned in section 58(1)(a) or 103(1)(a), and

(b) if necessary or expedient for the purpose of paragraph (a), may remove the document or record to another place and retain it there until the examination is completed.

(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, to a fine or to both, or

(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both.

(a) it shall not be photographed or copied, and

(b) the person who examines it shall make a written record of the examination as soon as is reasonably practicable.

(a) describe the document or record,

(b) specify the object of the examination,

(c) state the address of the premises where the document or record was found,

(d) where the document or record was found in the course of a search of a person, state the person's name,

(e) where the document or record was found in the course of a search of any premises, state the name of a person appearing to the person making the record to be the occupier of the premises or to have had custody or control of the document or record when it was found,

(f) where the document or record is removed for examination from the place where it was found, state the date and time when it was removed, and

(g) where the document or record was examined at the place where it was found, state the date and time of examination.

(a) in the case of a constable, by reference to his police number, and

(b) in the case of a member of Her Majesty's forces, by reference to his service number, rank and regiment.

(a) in a case where the document or record was found in the course of a search of a person, to that person, and

(b) in a case where the document or record was found in the course of a search of any premises, to a person appearing to the person making the record to be the occupier of the premises or to have had custody or control of the document or record when it was found.

(a) his identity and movements;

(b) what he knows about a recent explosion or another recent incident endangering life;

(c) what he knows about a person killed or injured in a recent explosion or incident.

(a) fails to stop when required to do so under this section,

(b) refuses to answer a question addressed to him under this section, or

(c) fails to answer to the best of his knowledge and ability a question addressed to him under this section.

(a) a member of Her Majesty's forces on duty, or

(b) a constable.

(a) a member of Her Majesty's forces on duty, or

(b) a constable.