Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Act 2024
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Amendment of section 7 of Act of 1981 | ||
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10. Section 7 of the Act of 1981 is amended— | ||
(a) by the substitution of “an applicable offence” for “a sexual assault offence” in each place it occurs, | ||
(b) in subsection (1), by the substitution of “published or broadcast” for “published in a written publication available to the public or be broadcast”, | ||
(c) in subsection (5), by the substitution of “applicable offence” for “sexual assault offence”, and | ||
(d) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (7): | ||
“(7) In this section— | ||
‘broadcast’ has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Broadcasting Act 2009 ; | ||
‘publish’ means publish, other than by way of broadcast or in an indictment or other document prepared for use in particular legal proceedings, to the public or a portion of the public.”. |