Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Act 2024
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Number 28 of 2024 | ||
CRIMINAL LAW (SEXUAL OFFENCES AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING) ACT 2024 | ||
CONTENTS | ||
Preliminary and General | ||
Section | ||
Sexual Offences | ||
Definition (Part 2) | ||
Amendment of Act of 1981 | ||
Vouching of character of convicted persons in trials for certain sexual offences | ||
14. Vouching of character of convicted persons in trials for certain sexual offences | ||
Amendments to other Acts of Oireachtas relating to sexual offences | ||
17. Amendment of Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Act 2007 | ||
Repeals and application of repeals | ||
National Referral Mechanism | ||
Interpretation (Part 3) | ||
Trusted Partners and Operational Committee | ||
Preliminary identification stage and conclusive identification stage | ||
25. Criteria for identification as victim of human trafficking | ||
27. Application for identification as victim of human trafficking | ||
28. Referral or refusal by competent authority or trusted partner of application | ||
29. Reconsideration, grant or refusal by operational committee of application | ||
Entry to National Referral Mechanism | ||
31. Effect of referrals, grants and refusals and entry to National Referral Mechanism | ||
32. Presumed victim of human trafficking and identified victim of human trafficking and services | ||
Appeals | ||
Miscellaneous | ||
AMENDMENT OF DEFENCE ACT 1954 | ||
Miscellaneous | ||
40. Amendment of Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008 | ||
Text of Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, done at New York on 25 May 2000 | ||
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Acts Referred to | ||
Broadcasting Act 2009 (No. 18) | ||
Charities Act 2009 (No. 6) | ||
Child and Family Agency Act 2013 (No. 40) | ||
Child Care Acts 1991 to 2022 | ||
Children Act 2001 (No. 24) | ||
Civil Legal Aid Act 1995 (No. 32) | ||
Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 2012 (No. 11) | ||
Criminal Justice (Safety of United Nations Workers) Act 2000 (No. 16) | ||
Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention Against Torture) Act 2000 (No. 11) | ||
Criminal Law (Rape) Act 1981 (No. 10) | ||
Criminal Law Act 1997 (No. 14) | ||
Defence (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1960 (No. 44) | ||
Defence (Amendment) Act 2006 (No. 20) | ||
Defence Act 1954 (No. 18) | ||
Geneva Conventions Act 1962 (No. 11) | ||
Guardianship of Children Acts 1964 to 1997 | ||
Health Acts 1947 to 2022 | ||
Immigration Act 1999 (No. 22) | ||
International Protection Act 2015 (No. 66) | ||
Legal Services Regulation Act 2015 (No. 65) | ||
Sex Offenders Act 2001 (No. 18) | ||
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Number 28 of 2024 | ||
CRIMINAL LAW (SEXUAL OFFENCES AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING) ACT 2024 | ||
An Act to amend the procedures applicable in proceedings for certain sexual offences including in relation to the adducing of evidence, the asking of questions, the exclusion of the public, the announcement of a verdict or decision and sentence and the anonymity of complainants and accused persons; for those and other purposes to amend the Criminal Law (Rape) Act 1981 and certain other enactments; to repeal certain provisions of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006 and the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 ; to provide for the retrospective application of certain of these repeals in certain circumstances; to provide for a mechanism for the identification of victims and presumed victims of human trafficking and the combatting of the trafficking of persons, to provide for the support of provision of assistance to such persons and, for those purposes, to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as the operational committee and to provide for its functions; to provide for the protection from deportation of certain persons; to amend the Defence Act 1954 ; to amend the Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Act 2008 ; to give effect to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, done at New York on 25 May 2000, and for that purpose to amend the Sexual Offences (Jurisdiction) Act 1996 and the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008 ; and to provide for related matters. | ||
[17th July, 2024] | ||
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: |
