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Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015

Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015

2015 CHAPTER 2

Commentary on Sections

Part 1 – Criminal Justice

Offences involving sexual grooming or pornographic images

Section 36: Meeting a child following sexual grooming etc

370.Section 36 amends the “grooming” offence under section 15 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The offence currently applies to a person who communicates with a child on at least two occasions, and who subsequently meets or arranges to meet that child in order to commit a sexual offence. This section reduces the number of occasions on which the defendant must initially meet or communicate with the child, so that a single meeting or communication will suffice.

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