Part 5Sexual offences and offenders
Chapter 2Duty to report child sexual abuse
87Section 85: reasons to suspect child sex offence may have been committed
(1)
For the purposes of section 85, a person (P) is given reason to suspect that a child sex offence may have been committed in each of the following cases (and no others).
(2)
The first case is where P witnesses conduct constituting a child sex offence.
(3)
The second case is where a child communicates to P something which would cause a reasonable person who engages in the same relevant activity as P to suspect that a child sex offence may have been committed.
(4)
The third case is where a person (A) communicates to P something which would cause a reasonable person who engages in the same relevant activity as P to suspect that A may have committed a child sex offence.
(5)
The fourth case is where—
(a)
P sees an image or hears an audio recording, and
(b)
a reasonable person who engages in the same relevant activity as P would suspect that the image shows, or the audio recording is of, conduct constituting a child sex offence.
(6)
The fifth case is where P sees an image, and a reasonable person who engages in the same relevant activity as P would suspect that possession of the image may constitute a child sex offence.
(7)
In this section “image” means a still or moving image, produced by any means.