{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/section-67",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/section-67.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/9",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015",
  "path": "section/67",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "67",
  "heading": "Sexual communication with a child",
  "text": "After section 15 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 insert—\n“Sexual communication with a child\n15A (1) A person aged 18 or over (A) commits an offence if—\n(a) for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, A intentionally communicates with another person (B),\n(b) the communication is sexual or is intended to encourage B to make (whether to A or to another) a communication that is sexual, and\n(c) B is under 16 and A does not reasonably believe that B is 16 or over.\n(2) For the purposes of this section, a communication is sexual if—\n(a) any part of it relates to sexual activity, or\n(b) a reasonable person would, in all the circumstances but regardless of any person's purpose, consider any part of the communication to be sexual;\nand in paragraph (a) “sexual activity” means an activity that a reasonable person would, in all the circumstances but regardless of any person's purpose, consider to be sexual.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine or both;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 67 in force at 3.4.2017 by S.I. 2017/451, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/9/section/67",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:05.371498+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."
}