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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002/schedule-5/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002/schedule-5/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/29",
  "legislation_title": "Proceeds of Crime Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Pimps and brothels",
  "text": "(1) An offence under any of the following provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 (c. 69)—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) section 13(3) (letting premises for use as a brothel).\n(1A) An offence under any of the following provisions of the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008—\n(a) Article 21 (arranging or facilitating commission of a sex offence against a child);\n(b) Article 38 (causing or inciting child prostitution or pornography);\n(c) Article 39 (controlling a child prostitute or a child involved in pornography);\n(d) Article 40 (arranging or facilitating child prostitution or pornography);\n(e) Article 62 (causing or inciting prostitution for gain);\n(f) Article 63 (controlling prostitution for gain).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) An offence of keeping a bawdy house.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 8(1)(a)-(c) repealed (2.2.2009) by The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 29(2), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 8(1A) substituted (2.2.2009) by The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 29(3); S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 8(2)-(5) repealed (1.5.2004) by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), s. 141, Sch. 6 para. 46(5)(b), Sch. 7; S.I. 2004/874, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 8(6) repealed (2.2.2009) by The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 29(4), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 8 in force at 24.3.2003 by S.I. 2003/333, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/31",
      "affecting_title": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words in Sch. 5 para. 9B renumbered as Sch. 5 para. 9B(1)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    },
    {
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/29/schedule/5/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:19.387180+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."
}