# Sexual Offences Act 1993, Introduction: Introductory text


An Act to abolish the presumption of criminal law that a boy under the age of fourteen is incapable of sexual intercourse.
[20th July 1993]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/30/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-1993/introduction
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