{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-scotland-act-2009/section-52",
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  "legislation": "asp/2009/9",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-scotland-act-2009",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Common law offences",
  "text": "For all purposes not relating to offences committed before the coming into force of this section—\n(a) the common law offences of—\n(i) rape,\n(ii) clandestine injury to women,\n(iii) lewd, indecent or libidinous practice or behaviour, and\n(iv) sodomy,\nare abolished, and\n(b) without prejudice to paragraph (a), in so far as the provisions of this Act regulate any conduct they replace any rule of law regulating that conduct.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 52 in force at 16.12.2013 by S.S.I. 2013/341, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/9/section/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:36.910809+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."
}