Act 1952 The expression "offence against the person" is used as a term of art in section 3 of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo.6 & 1 Eliz.2 c.67) and is defined for that purpose by paragraphs 1 (England and Wales and Northern Ireland) and 2 (Scotland) of the Schedule to that Act. England and Wales and Northern Ireland In the application of section 3 of the 1952 Act to England and Wales and Northern Ireland it means any of the following offences: murder, manslaughter, torture, robbery and assault and any offence of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring suicide or an attempt to commit suicide any offence not falling within the foregoing bullet point, being an offence punishable under any of the following enactments: the Offences against the Person Act 1861, except section 57 (which relates to bigamy) the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 the Punishment of Incest Act 1908 sections 1 to 5 and section 11 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, and sections 11, 12, 14 to 16, and 21 of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 the Infanticide Act 1938 and the Infanticide Act (Northern Ireland) 1939 article 3(1)(a) of the Protection of Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 section 1(1)(a) of the Protection of Children Act 1978 the Child Abduction Act 1984 the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 the Child Abduction (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 Part 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 an offence of making such a threat as is mentioned in subsection (3)(a) of section 1 of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 and any of the following offences against a protected person within the meaning of that section, namely an offence of kidnapping, an offence of false imprisonment and an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 of causing an explosion likely to endanger life an offence under section 2 of the Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983, where the circumstances are that either in the case of a contravention of subsection (2), the act falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of that subsection, had it been done, would have constituted an offence falling within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph, or in the case of a contravention of subsection (3) or (4), the act threatened, had it been done, would have constituted such an