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Sexual Offences Act 1956
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28 Causing or encouraging prostitution of, intercourse with, or indecent assault on, girl under sixteen.E+W
(1)It is an offence for a person to cause or encourage the prostitution of, or the commission of unlawful sexual intercourse with, or of an indecent assault on, a girl under the age of sixteen for whom he is responsible.
(2)Where a girl has become a prostitute, or has had unlawful sexual intercourse, or has been indecently assaulted, a person shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to have caused or encouraged it, if he knowingly allowed her to consort with, or to enter or continue in the employment of, any prostitute or person of known immoral character.
[F1(3)The persons who are to be treated for the purposes of this section as responsible for a girl are (subject to subsection (4) of this section)—
(a)her parents;
(b)any person who is not a parent of hers but who has parental responsibility for her; and
(c)any person who has care of her.
(4)An individual falling within subsection (3)(a) or (b) of this section is not to be treated as responsible for a girl if—
(a)a residence order under the Children Act 1989 is in force with respect to her and he is not named in the order as the person with whom she is to live; or
(b)a care order under that Act is in force with respect to her.]
(5)If, on a charge of an offence against a girl under this section, the girl appears to the court to have been under the age of sixteen at the time of the offence charged, she shall be presumed for the purposes of this section to have been so, unless the contrary is proved.
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F1S. 28(3)(4) substituted (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(4), Sch. 12 para. 14 (with Sch. 14 para. 1(1)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)
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