There are certain offences concerning corpses and bodies. It is an indictable offence at common law to leave a person unburied for whom the defendant is bound to provide a decent burial where he has the means of burial. \u00a0\u00a0It is a misdemeanour to prevent a body from being buried without lawful excuse.\u00a0 The offence may be constituted where a person hides a body even if prevention of burial is not the primary objective.<\/p>\n
Any person guilty of riotous, violent or indecent behaviour at a burial or wilfully obstructing a burial, or any such service or delivering an address not part of the religious service and not otherwise permitted by lawful authority or wilfully endeavouring to bring into contempt the Christian religion, belief or worship of any church or denomination is guilty of an offence.<\/p>\n
An Act to abolish the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel; to amend the Censorship of Films Act 1923 and the Censorship of Films (Amendment) Act 1925 ; to repeal certain provisions of the Defamation Act 2009 ; and to provide for related matters.<\/p>\n
1. Any rule of law by virtue of which\u2014<\/p>\n
2. Section 7 (2)(a)(ii) of the Censorship of Films Act 1923 is amended by the substitution of \u201cindecent or obscene\u201d for \u201cindecent, obscene or blasphemous\u201d.<\/p>\n
3. Section 3 (2) of the Censorship of Films (Amendment) Act 1925 is amended by the substitution of \u201cindecent or obscene\u201d for \u201cindecent, obscene, or blasphemous\u201d.<\/p>\n
4. Sections 36 and 37 of the Defamation Act 2009 are repealed.<\/p>\n
5. (1) This Act may be cited as the Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Act 2019.<\/p>\n
(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day or days as the Minister for Justice and Equality may appoint by order or orders either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision and different days may be so appointed for different purposes or different provisions.<\/p>\n
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Bigamy Bigamy is an offence contrary to the Offences against the Persons Act.\u00a0 A person who is married and goes through a ceremony or marriage is guilty of bigamy.\u00a0 The existing marriage must be valid.\u00a0 This must be proved in the prosecution.\u00a0 The offence is constituted by purporting to marry or going through a ceremony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33563,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/33563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}