{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-courts-act-2015/section-36",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/2",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-courts-act-2015",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Meeting a child following sexual grooming etc",
  "text": "(1) In section 15(1)(a) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (meeting a child following sexual grooming etc), for “on at least two occasions” substitute “ on one or more occasions ”.\n(2) In a case in which person A met or communicated with person B only once before the event mentioned in section 15(1)(a)(i) to (iii) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, an offence under that section is committed only if the meeting or communication took place after this section comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 36 in force at 13.4.2015 by S.I. 2015/778, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 30"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/2/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:15.088837+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."
}