http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/17/section/91/2021-04-29
Domestic Abuse Act 2021
An 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.
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Statute Law Database
2024-05-18
2021-04-29
Domestic Abuse Act 2021
s. 49A49B and cross-heading
Victims and Prisoners Act 2024
s. 20(2)
s. 32
s. 81(2)
Domestic Abuse Act 2021
s. 56(4)(c)
Victims and Prisoners Act 2024
s. 20(4)
s. 32
s. 81(2)
Domestic Abuse Act 2021
s. 87(6)(aa)
Victims and Prisoners Act 2024
s. 20(5)
s. 32
s. 81(2)
PART 7Miscellaneous and general
Final provisions
91Short title
This Act may be cited as the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.