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Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997

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The [Non-Fatal Offences Against The Person Act 1997] is an act of the Oireachtas which virtually codified the criminal law on assault and battery in Ireland. The act updated the Offences Against The Person Act 1861, scrapping such concepts as Actual bodily harm and Grievous bodily harm, and recognised the use of modern technology as a weapon:

"force" includes...application of heat, light, electric current, noise or any other form of energy -Section 2.2(a)

The Act also made it an offence to use a syrenge as a weapon, particularly where it is used to make the believe that he or she may become infected with disease

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