Sexual Offences Act 1985 (repealed)

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Sexual Offences Act 1985

1985 CHAPTER 44

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.

[16th July 1985]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Commencement Information

I1Act not in force at Royal Assent; Act wholly in force at 16.9.1985 see s. 5(4)