PART 2

Prevention, investigation and prosecution of crime
CHAPTER 4

Other provisions

Offences motivated by hostility based on sex or gender

Response to Law Commission report on hate crime laws
72
1
The Secretary of State must, before the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed—
a
prepare and publish a response to Recommendation 8 of the Law Commission report on hate crime (adding sex or gender as a protected characteristic for the purposes of aggravated offences and enhanced sentencing), and
b
lay the response before Parliament.
2
In this section “the Law Commission report on hate crime” means the Law Commission report “Hate Crime Laws” that was published on 7 December 2021.
S. 72 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 208(4)(m)