Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Act 2007
Soliciting or importuning for purposes of commission of sexual offence. |
2.— The Act of 1993 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 6 (inserted by section 250 of the Children Act 2001 ): | |
“6.— (1) A person who solicits or importunes a child (whether or not for the purposes of prostitution) for the purposes of the commission of an act that would constitute an offence— | ||
(a) under section 2 or 3 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006 , or | ||
(b) referred to in section 2 of the Act of 1990, | ||
shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(2) A person who solicits or importunes a person who is mentally impaired (whether or not for the purposes of prostitution) for the purposes of the commission of an act that would constitute an offence— | ||
(a) under section 5 of this Act, or | ||
(b) referred to in section 2 of the Act of 1990, | ||
shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable— | ||
(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding €5,000, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or to both, or | ||
(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or to both. | ||
(4) In this section— | ||
‘Act of 1990’ means the Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act 1990 ; | ||
‘ child ’ means a person under the age of 17 years; | ||
‘ mentally impaired ’ has the same meaning as it has in section 5 of this Act.”. |