Citation 1956 c. 44 Royal assent 16 July 1985 Repealed 1 April 2010 | Commencement 16 September 1985 | |
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Long title An Act to make, as respects England and Wales, provision for penalising in certain circumstances the soliciting of women for sexual purposes by men, and to increase the penalties under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 for certain offences against women. | ||
The Sexual Offences Act 1985 (c.44) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that created two offences concerning prostitution, and increased the maximum sentence for attempted rape from 7 years to life imprisonment.
The new offences were kerb crawling and persistently soliciting women for the purposes of prostitution. In 1991 the Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Sir Allan Green KCB QC, was arrested for an offence under this Act and had to resign.
Sections 3, 4(2) and (3), and 5(2) were repealed by Schedule 7 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
The whole Act was repealed by the Policing and Crime Act 2009.
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Sexual Offences Act 1985 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA