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        </Number><Title>Sexual offences and sex establishments</Title><Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/26/part/2/crossheading/prostitution" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/26/part/2/crossheading/prostitution" NumberOfProvisions="11" id="part-2-crossheading-prostitution" RestrictStartDate="2015-01-14"><Title><Emphasis>Prostitution</Emphasis></Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2010-04-01"><Title>Soliciting: Northern Ireland</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/26/section/20" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/26/section/20" id="section-20"><Pnumber PuncAfter=""><CommentaryRef Ref="key-1d0064cfe7b61a4cfe3c623a365ee42b"/>20</Pnumber><P1para><Text>For Articles 60 and 61 of the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (<Acronym Expansion="Statutory Instrument">S.I.</Acronym> 1769 (N.I. 2))
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