Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Act 2007
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Application of certain enactments. |
3.— (1) Section 4A of the Act of 1981 is amended, in subsection (6), by the insertion after “an offence under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006 ” (inserted by section 6(2) of the Act of 2006) of “an offence under section 6 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 ”. | |
(2) References in section 3 of the Act of 1981 to jury shall, in the case of summary proceedings for an offence under section 6 (inserted by section 2 ), be construed as references to court. | ||
(3) Sections 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 of the Act of 1981 shall apply to an offence under section 6 of the Act of 1993 subject to the modification that references in any of those sections to— | ||
(a) sexual assault offence shall be construed as including references to an offence under section 6 of the Act of 1993, and | ||
(b) rape offence shall be construed as including references to an offence under section 6 of the Act of 1993. | ||
(4) Section 26 of the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995 is amended, in subsection (3)(b), by the substitution of “an offence under section 6 (inserted by section 2 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences)(Amendment) Act 2007) of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 , or of an offence under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006 ” for “unlawful carnal knowledge under section 1 or 2 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1935 ”. |