Causing a person with a mental disorder to engage in or agree to engage in sexual activity by inducement, threat or deceptionN.I.
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48.—(1) A person (A) commits an offence if—
(a)by means of an inducement offered or given, a threat made or a deception practised by him for this purpose, he intentionally causes another person (B) to engage in, or to agree to engage in, an activity,
(b)the activity is sexual,
(c)B has a mental disorder, and
(d)A knows or could reasonably be expected to know that B has a mental disorder.
(2) A person guilty of an offence under this Article, if the activity caused or agreed to involved—
(a)penetration of B's anus or vagina,
(b)penetration of B's mouth with a person's penis,
(c)penetration of a person's anus or vagina with a part of B's body or by B with anything else, or
(d)penetration of a person's mouth with B's penis,
is liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for life.
(3) Unless paragraph (2) applies, a person guilty of an offence under this Article is liable—
(a)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both;
(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years.