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Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Imprisonment 4 of 11 obligations carry imprisonment (6 months). 6 carry different penalties and 1 has no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person10

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

Sexual offences

6 of 20 sections shown

s.001 Voyeurism: additional offences Imprisonment

Operate hidden equipment to view or record genitals, buttocks or breastsAny Person
Operate hidden equipment to view or record intimate areas without consentAny Person

s.002 Sending etc an unwanted sexual image Imprisonment

Send an unwanted sexual imageAny Person

s.004 Sexual grooming: pretending to be a child Imprisonment

Pretend to be under‑18 when communicating to groom a childAny Person

s.010 Increase in penalty for breach of anonymity Imprisonment

Breach of sexual offence victim anonymityAny Person
Disclose sexual offence victim's identityAny Person

s.016 Offence relating to reporting Imprisonment

Include prohibited matter in a publicationAny Person
Publish prohibited material in a newspaper, periodical or programmeAny Person

s.020 Guidance about this Part Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Department of Justice must issue and publish guidance on sexual offences lawCrown / Minister / Government department

14 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.003 Amendments consequential on sections 1 and 2

s.005 Abuse of position of trust: relevant positions

s.006 Private sexual images: threatening to disclose

s.007 Miscellaneous amendments as to sexual offences

s.008 Extended anonymity of victims

s.009 Disapplication of anonymity of victim after death

s.011 Special rules for providers of information society services

s.012 Restriction on reports as to suspects of sexual offences

s.013 Meaning of sexual offence in section 12

s.014 Power to disapply reporting restriction

s.015 Magistrates’ courts rules

s.017 Interpretation of sections 12 to 16

s.018 Consequential amendment

s.019 Serious sexual offences: exclusion of public from court

Part 2

Trafficking and exploitation

0 of 4 sections shown

4 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.021 Support for victims of trafficking etc

s.022 Defence for slavery and trafficking victims

s.023 Strategies on slavery and trafficking offences

s.024 Protective measures for victims of slavery or trafficking

Part 3

Protection from harm

1 of 4 sections shown

s.028 Offence of non-fatal strangulation or asphyxiation Imprisonment

Unlawful non-fatal strangulation or asphyxiationAny Person

3 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.025 Qualifying offences for sexual offences prevention orders

s.026 Time limit for making violent offences prevention orders

s.027 Consent to harm for sexual gratification is no defence

Part 4

Final provisions

0 of 3 sections shown

3 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.029 Ancillary regulations

s.030 Commencement

s.031 Short title

Schedules

1 of 28 shown

s.002 Miscellaneous amendments as to sexual offences Imprisonment

Cause or incite a child to provide sexual services or indecent images for paymentAny Person

27 other schedules

s.004 Offence of non-fatal strangulation or asphyxiation: consequential amendments

s.sch001 Consequential amendments: voyeurism and unwanted sexual images

s.sch001 In Article 53A(2) (questioning and treatment of persons by police:...

s.sch001 In section 2(3) (offences under law of Northern Ireland to...

s.sch001 In Article 13(4) (power to provide for restriction of publicity...

s.sch001 In Schedule 3 (sexual offences for purposes of notification requirements),...

s.sch001 In Part 2 of Schedule 2 (specified sexual offences), in...

s.sch002 The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 is amended as...

s.sch002 In Article 64A of the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order...

s.sch002 For the italic heading preceding Article 37 substitute “Abuse of...

s.sch002 (1) Article 38 is amended as follows.

s.sch002 (1) Article 39 is amended as follows.

s.sch002 (1) Article 40 is amended as follows.

s.sch002 For Article 41 substitute— (1) This Article applies for the purposes of Articles 38...

s.sch002 In Article 76(10)(a) of the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order...

s.sch002 In Schedule 3 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (sexual...

s.sch002 In section 90 of the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015,...

s.sch003 Offence of breach of anonymity: providers of information society services

s.sch003 (1) A service provider does not commit an offence under...

s.sch003 In this Schedule— “information society service” means any service normally...

s.sch004 In Article 53A (qualifying offences for particular investigative purposes), in...

s.sch004 In Schedule 5 (lists of offences for making particular orders),...

s.sch004 In Schedule 2 (lists of offences for sentencing matters), in...

s.sch004 In section 7A (certain rules of evidence and procedure), after...

s.sch004 In Article 2 (unjustifiable punishment of children), in paragraph (2)—...

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