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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Sexual Offences Act 1956 (c.69)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Sexual Offences Act 1956

1956 CHAPTER 69 4_and_5_Eliz_2

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    Offences, and the Prosecution and Punishment of Offences

    1. Intercourse by force, intimidation, etc

      1. 1. Rape of woman or man

      2. 2. Procurement of woman by threats

      3. 3. Procurement of woman by false pretences

      4. 4. Administering drugs to obtain or facilitate intercourse

    2. Intercourse with girls under sixteen

      1. 5. Intercourse with girl under thirteen

      2. 6.†Intercourse with girl between thirteen and sixteen

    3. Intercourse with defectives

      1. 7. Intercourse with defective

      2. 8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 9. Procurement of defective

    4. Incest

      1. 10. Incest by a man

      2. 11. Incest by a woman

    5. Unnatural offences

      1. 12. Buggery

      2. 13. Indecency between men

    6. Assaults

      1. 14. Indecent assault on a woman

      2. 15. Indecent assault on a man

      3. 16. Assault with intent to commit buggery

    7. Abduction

      1. 17. Abduction of woman by force or for the sake of her property

      2. 18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 19. Abduction of unmarried girl under eighteen from parent or guardian

      4. 20. Abduction of unmarried girl under sixteen from parent or guardian

      5. 21. Abduction of defective from parent or guardian

    8. Prostitution, procuration etc

      1. 22. Causing prostitution of women

      2. 23. Procuration of girl under twenty-one

      3. 24. Detention of woman in brothel or other premises

      4. 25. Permitting girl under thirteen to use premises for intercourse

      5. 26.†Permitting girl between thirteen and sixteen to use premises for intercourse

      6. 27. Permitting defective to use premises for intercourse

      7. 28. Causing or encouraging prostitution of, intercourse with, or indecent assault on, girl under sixteen

      8. 29. Causing or encouraging prostitution of defective

      9. 30. Man living on earnings of prostitution

      10. 31. Woman exercising control over prostitute

    9. Solicitation

      1. 32. Solicitation by men

    10. Suppression of brothels

      1. 33. Keeping a brothel

      2. 34. Landlord letting premises for use as brothel

      3. 35. Tenant permitting premises to be used as brothel

      4. 36. Tenant permitting premises to be used for prostitution

    11. Powers and procedure for dealing with offenders

      1. 37. Prosecution and punishment of offences

      2. 38.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 39.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    12. Powers of arrest and search

      1. 40.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 41.†Power of arrest in cases of trading in prostitution, or of soliciting by men

      3. 42. Power of search in case of man living on earnings of prostitution

      4. 43. Power to search for and remove woman detained for immoral purposes

    13. Interpretation

      1. 44. Meaning of “sexual intercourse”

      2. 45. Meaning of “defective”

      3. 46. Use of words “man”, “boy”, “woman” and “girl”

      4. 46A. Meaning of parental responsibility

      5. 47. Proof of exceptions

  2. Part II

    Supplementary

    1. Consequential amendments

      1. 48. Amendments of Acts not consolidated

      2. 49.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 50. Adaptation of enactments applying to Northern Ireland

      4. 51.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      5. 52. Savings, etc

      6. 53. Construction of references to enactments

      7. 54. Extent

      8. 55. Short title

      9. 56. Commencement

  3. FIRST SCHEDULE

    Rights of Landlord where Tenant convicted of

  4. SECOND SCHEDULE

    Table of offences, with mode of prosecution, punishments, etc

  5. Third Schedule

    Consequential Amendments of Enactments not Consolidated

  6. SCHEDULE 4

An Act to consolidate (with corrections and improvements made under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act 1949) the statute law of England and Wales relating to sexual crimes, to the abduction, procuration and prostitution of women and to kindred offences, and to make such adaptations of statutes extending beyond England and Wales as are needed in consequence of that consolidation.

[2nd August 1956]

Annotations:

Commencement Information

I1Act wholly in force at 1.1.1957 see s. 56

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