{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994/section-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994/section-33.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/33",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994",
  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Abolition of corroboration requirements under Sexual Offences Act 1956.",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (which provide that a person shall not be convicted of the offence concerned on the evidence of one witness only unless the witness is corroborated) are hereby repealed—\n(a) section 2(2) (procurement of woman by threats),\n(b) section 3(2) (procurement of woman by false pretences),\n(c) section 4(2) (administering drugs to obtain or facilitate intercourse),\n(d) section 22(2) (causing prostitution of women), and\n(e) section 23(2) (procuration of girl under twenty-one).\n(2) Nothing in this section applies in relation to—\n(a) any trial, or\n(b) any proceedings before a magistrates’ court as examining justices,\nwhich began before the commencement of this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1956 c. 69."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/section/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:43.965785+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."
}