Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017

Amendment of section 5 of Act of 2008

26. Section 5 of the Act of 2008 is amended by—

(a) the insertion of the following subsection:

“(2A) A person who pays, gives, offers or promises to pay or give a person (including the trafficked person) money or any other form of remuneration or consideration for the purposes of the prostitution of a trafficked person shall be guilty of an offence.”,

and

(b) in subsection (5), by the substitution of “sections 7 and 7A of the Act of 1993 in so far as an offence under those sections” for “section 7 of the Act of 1993 in so far as an offence under that section”.