{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-amendment-act-2000/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-amendment-act-2000/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/44",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-amendment-act-2000",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Defences available to persons who are under age.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) In section 13 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995, after subsection (8) there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(8A) A person under the age of sixteen years does not commit an offence under subsection (5)(a) or (c) above if he commits or is party to the commission of a homosexual act with a person who has attained that age.”\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2(1)-(3) repealed (1.5.2004) by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), s. 141, Sch. 6 para. 45(3), Sch. 7; S.I. 2004/874, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 2(5) repealed (1.5.2004) by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), s. 141, Sch. 7; S.I. 2004/874, art. 2"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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 wholly in force; s. 2 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 7(3); s. 2(1)-(3)(5) in force for E.W.N.I. at 8.1.2000 by S.I. 2000/3303, art. 2; s. 2(4) in force for S. at 8.1.2001 by S.S.I. 2000/452, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/44/section/2",
    "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."
}