Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Act 2024

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PART 5

Miscellaneous

Amendment of Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008

40. The Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008 is amended—

(a) in section 2—

(i) in subsection (1)—

(I) in the definition of “international instrument”, by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (la):

“(lb) the Second Optional Protocol;”,

and

(II) by the insertion of the following definition:

“ ‘Second Optional Protocol’ means the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, done at New York on 25 May 2000;”,

and

(ii) in subsection (6), by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (l):

“(la) Schedule 12A sets out the English text of the Second Optional Protocol,”,

and

(b) by the insertion, after Schedule 12, of Schedule 12A set out in the Schedule to this Act.