{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-90.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/20",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026",
  "path": "section/90",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Exception in respect of certain disclosures by children",
  "text": "(1) The duty under section 85 does not apply to a person (P) if—\n(a) P is given reason to suspect that another person (A) may have committed a child sex offence by a communication by A that is within section 87(4), and\n(b) P reasonably believes that—\n(i) A is a child, and\n(ii) each other person involved in the suspected offence is a child aged 13 or over.\n(2) Section 85(11)(b) (references to “involved in the suspected offence”) applies for the purposes of this section.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 90 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/section/90",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:58.060228+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}