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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sexual-offences-northern-ireland-order-2008/article-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sexual-offences-northern-ireland-order-2008/article-54.json",
  "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/54",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Care workers: causing a person with a mental disorder to watch a sexual act",
  "text": "(1) A person (A) commits an offence if—\n(a) for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, he intentionally causes another person (B) to watch a third person engaging in an activity, or to look at an image of any person engaging in an activity,\n(b) the activity is sexual,\n(c) B has a mental disorder,\n(d) A knows or could reasonably be expected to know that B has a mental disorder, and\n(e) A is involved in B’s care in a way that falls within Article 55.\n(2) Where in proceedings for an offence under this Article it is proved that the other person had a mental disorder, it is to be taken that the defendant knew or could reasonably have been expected to know that that person had a mental disorder unless sufficient evidence is adduced to raise an issue as to whether he knew or could reasonably have been expected to know it.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this Article is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years.",
  "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/54",
    "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."
}