Sexual Offences Act
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Sexual Offences Act is a stock short title
used for legislation
in the United Kingdom
relating to sexual offences (including both substantive and procedural provisions).
The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Sexual Offences Bill during its passage through Parliament.
Sexual Offences Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to the criminal law. It is a term of art.
The Sexual Offences Acts
and the imposition of direct rule
. These orders are considered to be primary legislation
.
Short title
The short title is the formal name by which a piece of primary legislation may by law be cited in the United Kingdom and other Westminster-influenced jurisdictions , as well as the United States. It contrasts with the long title which, while usually being more fully descriptive of the...
used for legislation
Legislation
Legislation is law which has been promulgated by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it...
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
relating to sexual offences (including both substantive and procedural provisions).
The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Sexual Offences Bill during its passage through Parliament.
Sexual Offences Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to the criminal law. It is a term of art.
United Kingdom
- The Sexual Offences Act 1956Sexual Offences Act 1956The Sexual Offences Act 1956 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated the English criminal law relating to sexual offences between 1957 and 2004. It was mostly repealed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which replaced it, but sections 33 to 37 still survive. The 2003 Act...
(4 & 5 Eliz.2 c.69) - The Indecency with Children Act 1960Indecency with Children Act 1960The Indecency with Children Act 1960 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that expanded English criminal law in relation to sexual acts with minors. The Act made it a crime to incite or commit an "act of gross indecency" with somebody under the age of fourteen...
(8 & 9 Eliz.2 c.33) - The Sexual Offences Act 1967Sexual Offences Act 1967The Sexual Offences Act 1967 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom . It decriminalised homosexual acts in private between two men, both of whom had to have attained the age of 21. The Act applied only to England and Wales and did not cover the Merchant Navy or the Armed Forces...
(c.60) - The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976The Sexual Offences Act 1976 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It made provision in relation to rape and related offences. Except for subsections and and and of section 7, the whole Act is repealed. Section 7 now provides the definition of the expression "a rape offence" in...
(c.82) - The Sexual Offences Act 1985Sexual Offences Act 1985The Sexual Offences Act 1985 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that created two offences concerning prostitution, and increased the maximum sentence for attempted rape from 7 years to life imprisonment....
(c.44) - The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 (c.34)
- The Sexual Offences Act 1993Sexual Offences Act 1993The Sexual Offences Act 1993 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that abolished the presumption that a boy under the age of fourteen is incapable of sexual intercourse. Under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, if a boy under the age of fourteen intentionally penetrates a woman's vagina...
(c.30) - The Sexual Offences (Conspiracy and Incitement) Act 1996 (c.29)
- The Sexual Offences (Protected Material) Act 1997 (c.39)
- The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000The Sexual Offences Act 2000 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It changed the age of consent for male homosexual sexual activities from 18 to that for heterosexual and lesbian sexual activities at 16, or 17 in Northern Ireland...
(c.44) - The Sexual Offences Act 2003Sexual Offences Act 2003The Sexual Offences Act 2003 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland that was passed in 2003 and became law on 1 May 2004.It replaced older sexual offences laws with more specific and explicit wording...
(c.42)
The Sexual Offences Acts
- The Sexual Offences Acts 1956 and 1967 means the Sexual Offences Act 1957 and the Sexual Offences Act 1967.
- The Sexual Offences Acts 1956 to 1976 means the Sexual Offences Acts 1957 and 1967 and the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976.
- The Sexual Offences Acts 1956 to 1992 means the Sexual Offences Acts 1956 to 1976 and the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992.
Scotland
- The Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 1976 (c.67)
- The Sexual Offences (Procedure and Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 9)
- The Protection of Children and Prevention of Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2005Protection of Children and Prevention of Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2005The Protection of Children and Prevention of Sexual Offences Act 2005 is an act of the Scottish Parliament. The Protection of Children and Prevention of Sexual Offences bill was announced to the parliament by the First Minister of Scotland, Jack McConnell, in September 2004. It was passed on 2...
(asp 9) - The Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009The Sexual Offences Act 2009 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament. It creates a code of sexual offences that is said to be intended to reform that area of the law....
(asp 9)
Northern Ireland
A number of Orders in Council with this title have been passed. The change in nomenclature is due to the demise of the Parliament of Northern IrelandParliament of Northern Ireland
The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the home rule legislature of Northern Ireland, created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which sat from 7 June 1921 to 30 March 1972, when it was suspended...
and the imposition of direct rule
Direct Rule
Direct rule was the term given, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, to the administration of Northern Ireland directly from Westminster, seat of United Kingdom government...
. These orders are considered to be primary legislation
Primary legislation
Primary legislation is law made by the legislative branch of government. This contrasts with secondary legislation, which is usually made by the executive branch...
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- The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I.1978/460 (N.I.5))
- The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I.2008/1769 (N.I.2))
Kenya
- The Sexual Offences Act 2006 http://www.sexualoffencesbill.co.ke/
South Africa
- The Sexual Offences Act, 1957Sexual Offences Act, 1957The Sexual Offences Act, 1957 is an act of the Parliament of South Africa which, in its current form, prohibits prostitution, brothel-keeping and procuring, and other activities related to prostitution...
(now mostly repealed) - The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2007 is a South African Act of Parliament which comprehensively revised and codified the law relating to sex offences...