Part 1Sexual Offences

Supplementary and general

78“Sexual”

F1For the purposes of this Part (F2except sections 15A and 71 ), penetration, touching or any other activity is sexual if a reasonable person would consider that—

a

whatever its circumstances or any person’s purpose in relation to it, it is because of its nature sexual, or

b

because of its nature it may be sexual and because of its circumstances or the purpose of any person in relation to it (or both) it is sexual.