Schedules Schedule 5: No immunity in certain circumstances
This schedule deals with offences for which a person cannot be granted immunity from prosecution.
	Part 1 deals with sexual offences and cases where the person seeking immunity from prosecution is subject to an ongoing prosecution or has a relevant pre-existing criminal conviction. Immunity under section 19 may not be granted for sexual offences or inchoate offences relating to sexual offences (paragraph 2). Sexual offences are defined in paragraph 2(2), and under paragraph 2(4) the Secretary of State has a power to make regulations containing further provision about the meaning of sexual offence.
	Paragraph 3 prevents immunity from prosecution being granted for an identified possible offence is the person requesting immunity already a conviction for that offence, or is currently being prosecuted for that offence. Further, a person cannot be granted immunity from prosecution for an identified possible offence if that grant would risk having, or would have, a prejudicial effect on the ongoing prosecution of that person for another offence (even one which is not Troubles-related). Paragraphs 4 and 5 clarify, respectively, the application of section 19 in cases where this Schedule prohibits the grant of immunity for all the identified possible offences, or only some of those offences (see section 19(5) for the meaning of "the identified possible offences").
	Part 2 deals with cases where a person’s immunity from prosecution is revoked by a court under section 26. It applies to additional requests for immunity by the same person made after such a revocation, and to requests which were still under consideration at the time of such a revocation. In these cases, the immunity requests panel is prohibited from granting immunity for any identified possible offence which was within the scope of the revoked immunity.