http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/section/87Crime and Policing Act 2026enStatute Law Database2026-10-26Expert Participation2026-10-26
Part 5Sexual offences and offendersChapter 2Duty to report child sexual abuse<InternalLink Ref="section-85" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2026/20/section/85" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/section/85">Section 85</InternalLink>: reasons to suspect child sex offence may have been committed
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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).
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The first case is where P witnesses conduct constituting a child sex offence.
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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.
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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.
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The fourth case is where—
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P sees an image or hears an audio recording, and
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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.
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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.
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In this section “image” means a still or moving image, produced by any means.
S. 87 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)