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[No. 26.] 27.—The First Schedule to the Extradition (Amendment) Act, 1994, is hereby amended—
 * (a) by the deletion, in paragraph 4, of “False imprisonment.”,
 * (b) by the deletion, in paragraph 5, of “Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.”, and
 * (c) the substitution for paragraph 6 of the following:
 * “6. Any offence under the following provisions of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act, 1997—
 * (a) section 3 (assault causing harm);
 * (b) section 4 (causing serious harm);
 * (c) section 15 (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.

29.—Section 9 of the Criminal Law Act, 1997, is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of the following paragraph:
 * “(a) manslaughter, or causing serious harm with intent to do so, or.”

30.—The Schedule to the Bail Act, 1997, is hereby amended by—
 * (a) the deletion in paragraph 3 of “Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.”,
 * (b) the deletion in paragraph 4 of “Kidnapping.”,
 * (c) the deletion in paragraph 5 of “False imprisonment.”, and
 * (d) the substitution for the matter contained in paragraph 7 of the following:
 * “Any offence under the following provisions of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act, 1997—
 * (a) section 3 (assault causing harm);