{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-amendment-act-2000/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-amendment-act-2000/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/44",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-amendment-act-2000",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Reduction in age at which certain sexual acts are lawful.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In section 13 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 (homosexual offences)—\n(a) in subsections (1) and (5)(c), for the word “eighteen”; and\n(b) in subsection (8), for the word “18”,\nthere shall be substituted the word “ sixteen ”.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Section 145 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (which is superseded by this section) is hereby repealed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(1)(2) repealed (1.5.2004) by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), s. 141, Sch. 6 para. 45(2), Sch. 7; S.I. 2004/874, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(4) repealed (1.5.2004) by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), s. 141, Sch. 7; S.I. 2004/874, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1995 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1994 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 wholly in force; s. 1 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 7(3); s. 1(1)(2)(4)(5) in force for E.W.N.I. at 8.1.2001 by S.I. 2000/3303, art. 2; s. 1(3)(5) in force for S. by S.S.I. 2000/452, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/44/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:20.811235+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."
}