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Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006

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24: 349: 292: 128: 246:. The Act provides for a defence of honest mistake where, if a defendant can satisfy the court that he or she honestly believed that the person with whom the sexual activity was committed, was of consenting age at the time (which the Act now sets as seventeen years old for both sexes). The lack of such a defence in section 1(1) of the 255:
The Act also provides for the first time that a woman could commit statutory rape, and merged the previously separate offences which related to heterosexual and homosexual statutory rape into two offences which cover both. However as an exception to the otherwise gender neutral provisions of the Act,
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girls under the age of seventeen cannot be found guilty of an offence under the Act.
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caused the Supreme Court to declare that section void.
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