http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/17/schedule/2/crossheading/modern-slavery-act-2015Domestic Abuse Act 2021An Act to make provision in relation to domestic abuse; to make provision for and in connection with the establishment of a Domestic Abuse Commissioner; to make provision for the granting of measures to assist individuals in certain circumstances to give evidence or otherwise participate in civil proceedings; to prohibit cross-examination in person in family or civil proceedings in certain circumstances; to make further provision about orders under section 91(14) of the Children Act 1989; to provide for an offence of threatening to disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress; to provide for an offence of strangulation or suffocation; to make provision about circumstances in which consent to the infliction of harm is not a defence in proceedings for certain violent offences; to make provision about certain violent or sexual offences, and offences involving other abusive behaviour, committed outside the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-05-18Expert Participation2024-04-16 SCHEDULESSCHEDULE 2Strangulation or suffocation: consequential amendments<Emphasis>Modern Slavery Act 2015</Emphasis>11In Schedule 4 to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (offences to which defence for slavery or trafficking victims under section 45 of that Act does not apply), after paragraph 35 insert—<Emphasis>Serious Crime Act 2015</Emphasis>35AAn offence under section 75A of the Serious Crime Act 2015 (strangulation or suffocation).Sch. 2 para. 11 in force at 7.6.2022 by S.I. 2022/553, regs. 1(2), 3(b)
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