Paragraph 20 Sexual Offences Act 2003I1

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 4 para. 5(a) words substituted by Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 Sch. 3 para. 84(2)
Sch. 4 para. 5(b) words substituted by Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 Sch. 3 para. 84(3)(a)
Sch. 4 para. 5(b) words substituted by Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 Sch. 3 para. 84(3)(b)

In sections 64 and 65 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003^f1 (sex with an adult relative: penetration) references to an adoptive relationship (however expressed) is to be read as a reference to the corresponding relationships created by the grant of a parental order and which arise by virtue of the enactments applied with modifications by regulations 2, 3 and 4 of these Regulations.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 4 para. 20 in force at 21.12.2018, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: 2003 c. 42. Section 64 was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 15 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4) and section 65 was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 15 to that Act.