SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3 U.K.Sexual offences for purposes of Part 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 3 modified (28.6.2022) by 2007 c. 21, s. 28(4ZA) (as inserted by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 146(c), 208(5)(p))

C2 Sch. 3 modified (S.) (31.3.2023) by Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 22), ss. 25(3), 45(2)(3) (with s. 44); S.S.I. 2023/51, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)

General U.K.

97 U.K.For the purposes of paragraphs 14, 44 and 78—

(a) a person is to be taken to have been under 16 at any time if it appears from the evidence as a whole that he was under that age at that time;

(b) section 7 of the Protection of Children Act 1978 (c. 37) (interpretation), subsections (2) to (2C) [F1 and (8) to (10)] of section 52 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 45), and Article 2(2) and (3) of the Protection of Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1047 (N.I. 17)) (interpretation) (respectively) apply as each provision applies for the purposes of the Act or Order of which it forms part.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 3 para. 97(b) substituted (S.) (13.12.2010) by Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13), ss. 41(3)(b), 206(1); S.S.I. 2010/413, art. 2, Sch.