offence an offence of making such a threat as is mentioned in section 3 of the United Nations Personnel Act 1997 and any of the following offences against a UN worker within the meaning of that Act kidnapping false imprisonment an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 of causing an explosion likely to endanger life It formerly included in particular: rape and buggery (presumably including at common law) offences of rape and buggery under the law of Northern Ireland offences punishable under section 89 of the Mental Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1948 (which related to certain offences against mentally defective females) sections 2 to 28 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 section 1 of the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 Scotland In the application of section 3 of the 1952 Act to Scotland, the expression "offence against the person" means any of the following offences: murder, culpable homicide, rape, torture, robbery, assault, incest, sodomy, lewd, indecent and libidinous practices, procuring abortion, abduction, cruel and unnatural treatment of persons, threats to murder or to injure persons any offence not falling within the last bullet point, being an offence punishable under any of the following enactments: the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 section 46 of the Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1913 (which relates to certain offences against mentally defective females) sections 12 to 16 and 22 of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 section 52(1)(a) of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 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 the following offence against a protected person within the meaning of that section, namely, 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 offence an offence of making such a threat as is mentioned in section 3