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Paragraph 36

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Section 35 (child complainants and other child witnesses) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (3) (offences to which section applies), in paragraph (a)—

(a)

before sub-paragraph (v) insert—

“(iva)

any of sections 33 to 36 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956,”; and

(b)

in sub-paragraph (vi), at end insert “ or any relevant superseded enactment ”.

(3)

After that subsection insert—

“(3A)

In subsection (3)(a)(vi) “relevant superseded enactment” means—

(a)

any of sections 1 to 32 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956;

(b)

the Indecency with Children Act 1960;

(c)

the Sexual Offences Act 1967;

(d)

section 54 of the Criminal Law Act 1977.”