Sexual Offences (Protected Material) Act 1997
Introductory
1 Meaning of “protected material”.
2 Meaning of other expressions.
Regulation of disclosures to defendant
3 Regulation of disclosures by prosecutor.
4 Disclosure to defendant’s legal representative.
5 Disclosure to unrepresented defendant.
6 Further disclosures by prosecutor.
7 Regulation of disclosures by Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Supplementary
8 Offences.
9 Modification and amendment of other enactments.
10 Financial provision.
11 Short title, commencement and extent.
SCHEDULE
Sexual offences for purposes of this Act
1Any offence under any of the following provisions of the...
2Any offence under section 128 of the Mental Health Act...
3Any offence under section 1 of the Indecency with Children...
4Any offence under section 54 of the Criminal Law Act...
5Any offence under section 1 of the Protection of Children...
5AAny offence under any provision of Part 1 of the...
6Any offence under section 1 of the Criminal Law Act...
7Any offence under section 1 of the Criminal Attempts Act...
8Any offence of inciting another to commit any of those...

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Sexual Offences (Protected Material) Act 1997

1997 CHAPTER 39

An Act to make provision for regulating access by defendants and others to certain categories of material disclosed by the prosecution or by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in connection with proceedings relating to certain sexual and other offences.

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—