20 Aggravating factor where foreign power condition met: Northern Ireland
National Security Act 2023 (2023 c 32) | Legislation

20  Aggravating factor where foreign power condition met: Northern Ireland

(1)     This section applies where a court in Northern Ireland is considering for the purposes of sentence the seriousness of an offence that—

(a)     is committed on or after the day on which this section comes into force, and

(b)     is not an offence listed in subsection (2).

(2)     Those offences are—

(a)     an offence under this Act or an ancillary offence

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