{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/32",
  "legislation_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Voyeurism: breast-feeding",
  "text": "(1) Section 67A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (voyeurism: additional offences) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) A person (A) commits an offence if—\n(a) A operates equipment,\n(b) A does so with the intention of enabling A or another person (C), for a purpose mentioned in subsection (3), to observe another (B) while B is breast-feeding a child, and\n(c) A does so—\n(i) without B’s consent, and\n(ii) without reasonably believing that B consents.\n(2B) A person (A) commits an offence if—\n(a) A records an image of another (B) while B is breast-feeding a child,\n(b) A does so with the intention that A or another person (C) will look at the image for a purpose mentioned in subsection (3), and\n(c) A does so—\n(i) without B’s consent, and\n(ii) without reasonably believing that B consents.”\n(3) In subsection (3), for “and (2)” substitute “to (2B)”.\n(4) After subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) In this section a reference to B breast-feeding a child includes B re-arranging B’s clothing—\n(a) in the course of preparing to breast-feed the child, or\n(b) having just finished breast-feeding the child.\n(3B) It is irrelevant for the purposes of subsections (2A) and (2B)—\n(a) whether or not B is in a public place while B is breast-feeding the child,\n(b) whether or not B’s breasts are exposed while B is breast-feeding the child, and\n(c) what part of B’s body—\n(i) is, or is intended by A to be, visible in the recorded image, or\n(ii) is intended by A to be observed.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 48 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 208(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 48 in force at 28.6.2022 by S.I. 2022/520, reg. 5(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:35.152975+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."
}