Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Act 2008
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Amendment of Criminal Evidence Act 1992. |
12.— The Criminal Evidence Act 1992 is amended— | |
(a) in the definition of “sexual offence” (inserted by section 16 of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997 ) in section 2, by— | ||
(i) the deletion of paragraph (iv) (inserted by section 7 (2) of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006 ), and | ||
(ii) the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (e): | ||
“(e) the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006 ;”, | ||
and | ||
(b) by the substitution of the following section for section 12 (amended by section 10 of the Act of 1998): | ||
“12.— This Part applies to— | ||
(a) a sexual offence, | ||
(b) an offence involving violence or the threat of violence to a person, | ||
(c) an offence under section 3, 4, 5 or 6 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 , | ||
(d) an offence under section 2 , 4 or 7 of the Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Act 2008, or | ||
(e) an offence consisting of attempting or conspiring to commit, or of aiding or abetting, counselling, procuring or inciting the commission of, an offence mentioned in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d).”. |