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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sexual-offences-northern-ireland-order-2008/article-71",
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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/71",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Voyeurism",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if—\n(a) for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, he observes another person doing a private act, and\n(b) he knows that the other person does not consent to being observed for his sexual gratification.\n(2) A person commits an offence if—\n(a) he operates equipment with the intention of enabling another person to observe, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, a third person (B) doing a private act, and\n(b) he knows that B does not consent to his operating equipment with that intention.\n(3) A person commits an offence if—\n(a) he records another person (B) doing a private act, and\n(b) he does so with the intention that he or a third person will, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, look at an image of B doing the act, and\n(c) he knows that B does not consent to his recording the act with that intention.\n(4) A person commits an offence if he instals equipment, or constructs or adapts a structure or part of a structure, with the intention of enabling himself or another person to commit an offence under paragraph (1).\n(5) 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 2 years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110800936/article/71",
    "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."
}