{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-northern-ireland-order-2008/article-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-northern-ireland-order-2008/article-61.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2008/1769",
  "legislation_title": "The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-northern-ireland-order-2008",
  "path": "article/61",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Persistent soliciting",
  "text": "(1) A person (A) commits an offence if in a street or other public place he persistently solicits another person (or different persons) for the purpose of prostitution.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this Article shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) Any reference in this Article to A soliciting another person for the purposes of prostitution is a reference to A soliciting that other person to provide services as a prostitute to A.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 60 substituted (1.4.2010) for arts. 60, 61 by Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26), ss. 20, 116(1); S.I. 2010/507, art. 5(g) (subject to art. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2008/1769/article/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:00.821217+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."
}