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Engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child

Cap. 101, s. 47C · Revised Edition 2020

(1) A person who being eighteen years or over engages in an activity that is sexual in nature and for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification engages in it– (a) with another person in the presence of or in a place from which a person who is under sixteen years can observe; and (b) knowing or believing that he is being observed or intending to be observed by– (i) a person who is under sixteen years and does not reasonably believe that that person is sixteen years or over; or (ii) a person who is under fourteen years, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term of five years or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term of ten years. (2) A person who, being eighteen years or over, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, causes– (a) another person to watch a third person engaging in activity that is sexual in nature; or 52 (b) another person to look at an image of any person engaging in an activity that is sexual in nature, where the other person is under sixteen years and he does not reasonably believe that the other person is sixteen years or over or the other person is under fourteen years, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term of five years or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term of ten years.

Amended by: 12 of 2014

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