[3] Although it has been substantially amended, it continues to be the foundation for prosecuting personal injury, short of murder, in the courts of England and Wales.

Similarly, children were throwing stones at passing railway trains,[citation needed] and these provisions remain in force.

This section provided that the body of every person executed for murder was to be buried within the precincts of the last prison in which he had been confined, and that his sentence was to direct that this should happen.

This section now provides that a person convicted of manslaughter in English law is liable to imprisonment for life or for any shorter term.

In England and Wales it now reads: The words "or to pay" to the end were repealed by Part I of Tenth Schedule to the Criminal Justice Act 1948.

They respectively dealt with the form of the indictment for murder and manslaughter, with excusable homicide and with petty treason.

Section 9 gives the courts in England, Wales and Ireland extra-territorial jurisdiction over homicides committed by British subjects overseas.

Section 10 gives these courts jurisdiction over fatal acts committed by British subjects overseas where the death occurs in England, Wales or Ireland, and jurisdiction over fatal acts committed in England, Wales or Ireland by anyone, including aliens, where the death occurs abroad.

It is also no longer possible to charge the remaining offences of wounding and causing grievous bodily harm as having been committed with intent to maim, disfigure or disable as the relevant words have been repealed.

Sections 23 and 24 cover the insidious forms of attack based on administering poisons or other dangerous chemicals and substances intending to injure another.

Although rarely used today, the offences remain available should the specific circumstances arise, e.g. sending a package containing a dangerous substance to an embassy.

This section deals with the problem of neglect by an employer who failed to provide adequate food, clothing and accommodation for staff and servants.

See also the summary offence under section 6 of the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 which could be committed by neglecting to provide medical aid.

4. c. 18 (1827) (An Act to prohibit the setting of spring guns, mantraps and other engines calculated to destroy human life or inflict grievous bodily harm).

Sections 32 to 34 protect the railways from those who place obstructions on the line, throw stones at the passing trains, and generally endanger the passengers.

In England and Wales and Northern Ireland this section creates the offence of causing bodily harm by wanton or furious driving.

The marginal note to this section reads "Assault with intent to commit felony, or on peace officers, &c." It is unreliable.

Assaulting, resisting or wifully obstructing a peace officer in the execution of his duty This offence was repealed and replaced by section 51 of the Police Act 1964.

In Northern Ireland, this section makes provision for the summary prosecution of aggravated assaults on women and children.

The maximum fine for this offence was increased by section 60(2) of the Summary Jurisdiction and Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1935 (c. 13) (N.I.)

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm In England and Wales, and in Northern Ireland, this section creates the offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and provides the penalty to which a person is liable on conviction of that offence on indictment.

In Northern Ireland, it is written that a person who is convicted on indictment (before a Crown Court thus for more serious instances) of common assault is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

In Northern Ireland, repeal of this section was consequential upon the codification of the law relating to sexual offences.

In Northern Ireland, repeal of these sections was consequential upon the codification of the law relating to sexual offences.

[31] Sections 58 and 59 continue to apply in England and Wales, alongside the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 which created a separate legal protection after 28 weeks of gestation, through the creation of the offence of child destruction: (1) ... no person shall be found guilty of an offence under this section unless it is proved that the act which caused the death of the child was not done in good faith for the purpose only of preserving the life of the mother.

The 1967 Act initially had the following effect, within the 28-week term limit provided through the 1929 Act: (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall not be guilty of an offence under the law relating to abortion when a pregnancy is terminated by a registered medical practitioner if two registered medical practitioners are of the opinion, formed in good faith— (a) that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman, or of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated; As amended (by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990), the 1967 Act continues to provide that any act to procure abortion, and anything done with intent to procure a woman's miscarriage, is unlawful unless authorised as follows, including a reduced term limit to 24 weeks to recognise improved fetal viability: (a) that the pregnancy has not exceeded its twenty-fourth week and that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family; or (b) that the termination is necessary to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman; or (c) that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated; or Home Office statistics for England and Wales recorded 224 offences in total for procuring an illegal abortion in 1900–1909, which increased to 527 in the subsequent decade, 651 in the 1920s, and 1,028 in the 1930s (although figures for 1939 are unavailable).

The number of offences increased significantly from 1942 onwards, at the same time as the arrival of American military personnel during the Second World War, rising to 649 in 1944, and totalling 3,088 throughout the 1940s.

From 1931 to 2002, there were also 109 recorded cases of child destruction in the jurisdiction, as defined by the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

(5) A person who is guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years, or both.