There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009, Section 52.
For all purposes not relating to offences committed before the coming into force of this section—
(a)the common law offences of—
(i)rape,
(ii)clandestine injury to women,
(iii)lewd, indecent or libidinous practice or behaviour, and
(iv)sodomy,
are abolished, and
(b)without prejudice to paragraph (a), in so far as the provisions of this Act regulate any conduct they replace any rule of law regulating that conduct.
Commencement Information
I1S. 52 in force at 16.12.2013 by S.S.I. 2013/341, art. 2(a)
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