{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/26",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Soliciting: England and Wales",
  "text": "Before section 52 of Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42) (but after the italic heading, which becomes “Prostitution”) insert—\n“Soliciting\n51A (1) It is an offence for a person in a street or public place to solicit another (B) for the purpose of obtaining B's sexual services as a prostitute.\n(2) The reference to a person in a street or public place includes a person in a vehicle in a street or public place.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) In this section “street” has the meaning given by section 1(4) of the Street Offences Act 1959.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 in force at 1.4.2010 by S.I. 2010/507, art. 5(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/26/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:38.465629+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."
}