The Sexual Offences Referencer

摘要

It was held in some quarters that the 1956 Sexual Offences Act (itself a consolidating Act) failed to reflect the morality and prevalent sexual practices of the present day. The forward to the book tells us that as a result the government enacted the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which came into force on 1 May 2004, creating many new offences. The old offences still apply to offences committed before 1 May 2004. Some of those old offences had been amended or the maximum sentences had been increased over the years when there were incremental changes.