{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2008/schedule-2/paragraph-14A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2008/schedule-2/paragraph-14A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2008/1216",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2008",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/14A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An offence under—\nArticle 5 (rape),\nArticle 6 (assault by penetration),\nArticle 7 (sexual assault),\nArticle 8 (causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent,\nArticle 12 (rape of a child under 13),\nArticle 13 (assault of a child under 13 by penetration),\nArticle 14 (sexual assault of a child under 13),\nArticle 15 (causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity,\nArticle 16 (sexual activity with a child),\nArticle 17 (causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity),\nArticle 18 (engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child),\nArticle 19 (causing a child to watch a sexual act),\nArticle 20 (sexual offences against children committed by children or young persons),\nArticle 21 (arranging or facilitating commission of a sexual offence against a child),\nArticle 22 (meeting a child following sexual grooming etc.),\nArticle 22A (sexual communication with a child),\nArticle 22B (communicating with a person with a view to grooming a particular child),\nArticle 22C (communicating with a group with a view to grooming a particular child),\nArticle 22D (communicating with a person with a view to grooming any child),\nArticle 22E (communicating with a group with a view to grooming any child),\nArticle 23 (abuse of position of trust: sexual activity with a child),\nArticle 24 (abuse of position of trust: causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity),\nArticle 25 (abuse of position of trust: sexual activity in the presence of a child),\nArticle 26 (abuse of position of trust: causing a child to watch a sexual act),\nArticle 32 (sexual activity with a child family member),\nArticle 33 (inciting a child family member to engage in sexual activity),\nArticle 37 (paying for sexual services of a child),\nArticle 38 (causing or inciting child prostitution or pornography),\nArticle 39 (controlling a child prostitute or a child involved in pornography),\nArticle 40 (arranging or facilitating child prostitution or pornography),\nArticle 43 (sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder impeding choice),\nArticle 44 (causing or inciting a person, with a mental disorder impeding choice, to engage in sexual activity),\nArticle 45 (engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a person with a mental disorder impeding choice),\nArticle 46 (causing a person, with a mental disorder impeding choice, to watch a sexual act),\nArticle 47 (inducement, threat or deception to procure sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder),\nArticle 48 (causing a person with a mental disorder to engage in or agree to engage in sexual activity by inducement, threat or deception),\nArticle 49 (engaging in sexual activity in the presence, procured by inducement, threat or deception, of a person with a mental disorder),\nArticle 50 (causing a person with a mental disorder to watch a sexual act by inducement, threat or deception),\nArticle 51 (care workers: sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder),\nArticle 52 (care workers: causing or inciting sexual activity),\nArticle 53 (care workers: sexual activity in the presence of a person with a mental disorder),\nArticle 54 (care workers: causing a person with a mental disorder to watch a sexual act),\nArticle 62 (causing or inciting prostitution for gain),\nArticle 63 (controlling prostitution for gain),\nArticle 65 (administering a substance with intent),\nArticle 66 (committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence),\nArticle 67 (trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence),\nArticle 70 (exposure),\nArticle 71 (voyeurism),\nArticle 71A (voyeurism: additional offences (genitals and buttocks)),\nArticle 71B (voyeurism: additional offences (breasts)),\nArticle 72A (sending etc an unwanted sexual image),\nArticle 73 (intercourse with an animal),\nArticle 74 (sexual penetration of a corpse).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 2 para. 14A and preceding cross-heading inserted (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, Sch. 1 para. 35(3); S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 para. 14A inserted (25.7.2018) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), ss. 90(5), 106(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 para. 14A inserted (27.11.2023) by Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 19), ss. 4(3), 30(2), S.R. 2023/188, art 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 para. 14A substituted (27.11.2023) by Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 19), s. 30(2), Sch. 1 para 5, S.R. 2023/188, art 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2008/1216/schedule/2/paragraph/14A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:03.144833+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."
}