{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008/schedule-26/paragraph-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008/schedule-26/paragraph-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/4",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/26/paragraph/36",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 35 (child complainants and other child witnesses) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (3) (offences to which section applies), in paragraph (a)—\n(a) before sub-paragraph (v) insert—\n“(iva) any of sections 33 to 36 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956,”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (vi), at end insert “ or any relevant superseded enactment ”.\n(3) After that subsection insert—\n“(3A) In subsection (3)(a)(vi) “relevant superseded enactment” means—\n(a) any of sections 1 to 32 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956;\n(b) the Indecency with Children Act 1960;\n(c) the Sexual Offences Act 1967;\n(d) section 54 of the Criminal Law Act 1977.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2022/32",
      "affecting_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/4/schedule/26/paragraph/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:34:04.639459+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."
}