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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sexual-offences-northern-ireland-order-2008/article-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110800936",
  "legislation_title": "The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sexual-offences-northern-ireland-order-2008",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "“Sexual”",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Order, except Article (sexual activity in a public lavatory), penetration, touching or any other activity is sexual if a reasonable person would consider that—\n(a) whatever its circumstances or any person’s purpose in relation to it, it is because of its nature sexual, or\n(b) because of its nature it may be sexual and because of its circumstances or the purpose of any person in relation to it (or both), it is sexual.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110800936/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:17:19.541187+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."
}