Part I Offences, and the Prosecution and Punishment of Offences
Intercourse by force, intimidation, etc.
F111 Rape of woman or man.
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F112 Procurement of woman by threats.
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F113 Procurement of woman by false pretences.
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F114 Administering drugs to obtain or facilitate intercourse.
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Intercourse with girls under sixteen
F115 Intercourse with girl under thirteen.
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F116Intercourse with girl between thirteen and sixteen.
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Intercourse with defectives
F117 Intercourse with defective.
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F129 Procurement of defective.
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Incest
F1210 Incest by a man.
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F1211 Incest by a woman.
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Unnatural offences
F1212 Buggery. C1
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F12C313 Indecency between men. C2
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Assaults
F1214 Indecent assault on a woman.
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F1215 Indecent assault on a man.
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F1216 Assault with intent to commit buggery.
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Abduction
F1217 Abduction of woman by force or for the sake of her property.
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F1319 Abduction of unmarried girl under eighteen from parent or guardian.
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F1320 Abduction of unmarried girl under sixteen from parent or guardian.
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F1321 Abduction of defective from parent or guardian.
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Prostitution, procuration etc.
F1322 Causing prostitution of women.
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F1323 Procuration of girl under twenty-one.
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F1324 Detention of woman in brothel or other premises.
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F1325 Permitting girl under thirteen to use premises for intercourse.
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F1326Permitting girl between thirteen and sixteen to use premises for intercourse.
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F1327 Permitting defective to use premises for intercourse.
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F1328 Causing or encouraging prostitution of, intercourse with, or indecent assault on, girl under sixteen.
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F1329 Causing or encouraging prostitution of defective.
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F1330 Man living on earnings of prostitution.
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F1331 Woman exercising control over prostitute.
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Solicitation
F1332 Solicitation by men.
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Suppression of brothels
33 Keeping a brothel. C4
It is an offence for a person to keep a brothel, or to manage, or act or assist in the management of, a brothel.
33AF14Keeping a brothel used for prostitution
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It is an offence for a person to keep, or to manage, or act or assist in the management of, a brothel to which people resort for practices involving prostitution (whether or not also for other practices).
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In this section “prostitution” has the meaning given by section 51(2) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
34 Landlord letting premises for use as brothel. C5
It is an offence for the lessor or landlord of any premises or his agent to let the whole or part of the premises with the knowledge that it is to be used, in whole or in part, as a brothel, or, where the whole or part of the premises is used as a brothel, to be wilfully a party to that use continuing.
35 Tenant permitting premises to be used as brothel. C6
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It is an offence for the tenant or occupier, or person in charge, of any premises knowingly to permit the whole or part of the premises to be used as a brothel.
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Where the tenant or occupier of any premises is convicted F17... of knowingly permitting the whole or part of the premises to be used as a brothel, the First Schedule to this Act shall apply to enlarge the rights of the lessor or landlord with respect to the assignment or determination of the lease or other contract under which the premises are held by the person convicted.
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Where the tenant or occupier of any premises is so convicted, F18... and either—
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the lessor or landlord, after having the conviction brought to his notice, fails or failed to exercise his statutory rights in relation to the lease or contract under which the premises are or were held by the person convicted; or
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The lessor or landlord, after exercising his statutory rights so as to determine that lease or contract, grants or granted a new lease or enters or entered into a new contract of tenancy of the premises to, with or for the benefit of the same person, without having all reasonable provisions to prevent the recurrence of the offence inserted in the new lease or contract;
then, if subsequently an offence under this section is committed in respect of the premises during the subsistence of the lease or contract referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection or (where paragraph (b) applies) during the subsistence of the new lease or contract, the lessor or landlord shall be deemed to be a party to that offence unless he shows that he took all reasonable steps to prevent the recurrence of the offence.
References in this subsection to the statutory rights of a lessor or landlord refer to his rights under the First Schedule to this Act F18....
36 Tenant permitting premises to be used for prostitution.
It is an offence for the tenant or occupier of any premises knowingly to permit the whole or part of the premises to be used for the purposes of habitual prostitution. F16(whether any prostitute involved is male or female)
Powers and procedure for dealing with offenders
37 Prosecution and punishment of offences.
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The Second Schedule to this Act shall have effect, subject to and in accordance with the following provisions of this section, with respect to the prosecution and punishment of the offences listed in the first column of the Schedule, being the offences under this Act and attempts to commit certain of those offences.
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The second column in the Schedule shows, for any offence, if it may be prosecuted on indictment or summarily, or either, . . . F3 and what special restrictions (if any) there are on the commencement of a prosecution.
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The third column in the Schedule shows, for any offence, the punishments which may be imposed on conviction on indictment or on summary conviction, a reference to a period giving the maximum term of imprisonment and a reference to a sum of money the maximum fine.
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The fourth column in the Schedule contains provisions which are either supplementary to those in the second or third column or enable a person charged on indictment with the offence specified in the first column to be found guilty of another offence if the jury are not satisfied that he is guilty of the offence charged or of an attempt to commit it, but are satisfied that he is guilty of the other offence.
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A provision in the fourth column of the Schedule enabling the jury to find the accused guilty of an offence specified in that provision authorises them, if not satisfied that he is guilty of the offence so specified, to find him guilty of any other offence of which they could find him guilty if he had been indicted for the offence so specified.
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Where in the Schedule there is used a phrase descriptive of an offence or group of offences followed by a reference to a section by its number only, the reference is to a section of this Act, and the phrase shall be taken as referring to any offence under the section mentioned.
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Nothing in this section or in the Second Schedule to this Act shall exclude the application to any of the offences referred to in the first column of the Schedule—
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of F6subsection (5) of section 121 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (which limits the punishment which may be imposed by a magistrates’ court sitting in an occasional courthouse); or
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of any enactment or rule of law restricting a court’s power to imprison; or
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of any enactment or rule of law authorising an offender to be dealt with in a way not authorised by the enactments specially relating to his offence; or
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of any enactment or rule of law authorising a jury to find a person guilty of an offence other than that with which he is charged.
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Powers of arrest and search
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F1541Power of arrest in cases of trading in prostitution, or of soliciting by men.
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F1542 Power of search in case of man living on earnings of prostitution.
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F1543 Power to search for and remove woman detained for immoral purposes.
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Interpretation
F1544 Meaning of “sexual intercourse”.
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F1545 Meaning of “defective”.
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F1546 Use of words “man”, “boy”, “woman” and “girl”. C7
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F1546AF10 Meaning of parental responsibility.
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F1547 Proof of exceptions.
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