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  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/42",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Repeals and revocations",
  "text": "Reference\nExtent of repeal or revocation\nVagrancy Act 1824 (c. 83)\nIn section 4 except so far as extending to Northern Ireland, the words from “every person wilfully” to “female”.\nIn section 4 as it extends to Northern Ireland, the words from “wilfully, openly, lewdly” to “any female; or”.\nTown Police Clauses Act 1847 (c. 89)\nIn section 28 the words “every person who wilfully and indecently exposes his person:”.\nOffences Against the Person Act 1861 (c. 100)\nSections 61 and 62.\nCriminal Law Amendment Act 1885 (c. 69)\nSection 2(2) to (4).\nSection 11.\nVagrancy Act 1898 (c. 39)\nThe whole Act.\nCriminal Law Amendment Act 1912 (c. 20)\nSection 7.\nVisiting Forces Act 1952 (c. 67)\nIn the Schedule, in paragraph 1(a) the words “rape, buggery”; paragraph 1(b)(viii).\nArmy Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 18)\nIn section 70(4), the words “or rape”.\nAir Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19)\nIn section 70(4), the words “or rape”.\nSexual Offences Act 1956 (c. 69)\nSections 1 to 7.\nSections 9 to 17.\nSections 19 to 32.\nSections 41 to 47.\nIn Schedule 2, paragraphs 1 to 32.\nNaval Discipline Act 1957 (c. 53)\nIn section 48(2), the words “or rape”.\nMental Health Act 1959 (c. 72)\nSections 127 and 128.\nIndecency with Children Act 1960 (c. 33)\nThe whole Act.\nSexual Offences Act 1967 (c. 60)\nSection 1.\nSection 4.\nSection 5.\nSections 7 and 8.\nSection 10.\nTheft Act 1968 (c. 60)\nIn section 9(2), the words “or raping any person”.\nChildren and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (c. 34 (N.I.))\nIn section 21, in subsection (1) the words “or the prostitution of,” and in subsection (2) the words “or the prostitution of,” and “or who has become a prostitute,”.\nCriminal Justice Act 1972 (c. 71)\nSection 48.\nNational Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32)\nIn Schedule 4, paragraph 92.\nSexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976 (c. 82)\nSection 1(2).\nSection 7(3).\nCriminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45)\nSection 54.\nNational Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49)\nIn Schedule 15, paragraph 29.\nInternationally Protected Persons Act 1978 (c. 17)\nIn section 1(1)(a), the word “rape,”.\nSuppression of Terrorism Act 1978 (c. 26)\nIn section 4(1)(a), the word “11,”.\nIn Schedule 1, paragraph 11.\nMagistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43)\nIn section 103(2)(c), the words from “the Indecency with Children Act 1960” to “1977 or”.\nIn Schedule 1, paragraphs 23, 27 and 32.\nIn Schedule 7, paragraph 18.\nCriminal Attempts Act 1981 (c. 47)\nIn section 4(5), paragraph (a) and the word “and” immediately after it.\nMagistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26))\nIn Article 29(1), the words from “or with an offence under section 1(1)(b) of the Vagrancy Act 1898” to “homosexual act”.\nIn Schedule 2, paragraphs 5(c), 10(c) and 22.\nCriminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48)\nIn Schedule 1, in Part 1, paragraph 2, and in Part 2, the cross-heading immediately before paragraph 12, and paragraphs 12 to 14.\nMental Health (Amendment) Act 1982 (c. 51)\nIn Schedule 3, paragraphs 29 and 34.\nHomosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 (S.I. 1982/1536 (N.I. 19))\nIn Article 2(2), in the definition of “homosexual act”, the words from “, an act of gross indecency” to the end.\nArticle 3.\nArticle 7.\nArticle 8.\nArticle 10(2)(a) and (b).\nIn Article 11(1), the words “, or gross indecency with,”.\nArticle 12(1).\nArticle 13.\nIn the Schedule, paragraphs 3, 4 and 7.\nMental Health Act 1983 (c. 20)\nIn Schedule 4, paragraph 15.\nPolice and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60)\nIn section 80(7), the words from “the Sexual Offences Act 1956” to “1977 or”.\nIn Schedule 1A, paragraph 4 and the cross-heading immediately before it.\nIn Part 1 of Schedule 5, paragraphs 4 and 6 to 8.\nIn Part 2 of Schedule 5, paragraph 2 and the cross-heading immediately before it.\nIn Part 1 of Schedule 6, paragraph 9.\nSexual Offences Act 1985 (c. 44)\nSection 3.\nSection 4(2) and (3).\nSection 5(2).\nMental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/595 (N.I. 4))\nIn Schedule 5, in Part II, the entry relating to the Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982.\nCriminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33)\nIn section 32(2)(c), the words from “the Sexual Offences Act 1956” to “1977 or”.\nChildren Act 1989 (c. 41)\nIn Schedule 12, paragraphs 11 to 14 and 16.\nCriminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33)\nSections 142 to 144.\nIn Schedule 10, paragraphs 26 and 35(2) and (4).\nCriminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c. 25)\nSection 56(2)(a).\nSexual Offences (Conspiracy and Incitement) Act 1996 (c. 29)\nIn the Schedule, paragraph 1(1)(a).\nSexual Offences (Protected Material) Act 1997 (c. 39)\nIn the Schedule, paragraphs 1 to 4.\nCrime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c. 43)\nSection 52.\nSex Offenders Act 1997 (c. 51)\nThe whole Act.\nCrime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37)\nSections 2, 2A, 2B and 3.\nIn section 4, in subsection (1) the words “, a sex offender order or an order under section 2A above” and in subsection (3) the words “or 2(6) above”.\nSection 20.\nIn Section 21, subsection (2); in subsection (4), the words “or (2)”; in subsection (5), the words “or 20”; in subsection (6), the words “and sex offender orders” and “or 20(4)(a)”; in subsection (7)(b)(i), the words “or, as the case may be, chief constable”; subsections (7A) and (7B); and in subsection (10), the words “or 20”.\nSection 21A.\nSection 22(6) and (7).\nIn Schedule 8, paragraphs 36 and 144.\nCriminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1504 (N.I. 9))\nIn Schedule 1, paragraph 1(c), (e) and (j).\nCriminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2839 (N.I. 20)).\nArticles 6, 6A, 6B and 7.\nYouth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (c. 23)\nIn section 35(3)(a), sub-paragraphs (i) to (iv).\nPowers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (c. 6)\nSection 161(2)(a) to (e).\nIn Schedule 9, paragraphs 189, 190 and 193.\nCare Standards Act 2000 (c. 14)\nIn Schedule 4, paragraph 2.\nCriminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000 (c. 43)\nSection 39.\nSection 66.\nIn Schedule 4, paragraphs 1(c) to (i), 2(g) to (m) and 3(b) to (r).\nSchedule 5.\nSexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000 (c. 44)\nSection 1(1), (2) and (4).\nSection 2(1) to (3) and (5).\nSections 3 and 4 except so far as extending to Scotland.\nSection 5.\nSection 6(1).\nArmed Forces Act 2001 (c. 19)\nIn Schedule 6, paragraphs 2 and 59.\nProceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29)\nIn Schedule 5, paragraph 8(2) to (5).\nPolice Reform Act 2002 (c. 30)\nSections 67 to 74.\nNationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41)\nSections 145 and 146.\nAccess to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/435 (N.I. 10))\nIn Schedule 2, in paragraph 2(d), sub-paragraph (x) and the word “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (xi).\nCriminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1247 (N.I. 13))\nIn Article 19(4), sub-paragraph (a).\nIn Schedule 1, paragraphs 1, 2, 20 and 21.",
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