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Amend the Sexual Offences Act 2003 to prohibit the use of a defence of |
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sleepwalking in proceedings relating to the offence of rape; and for connected |
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Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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1 | Amendment of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in relation to rape |
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(1) | Section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42) (rape) is amended as follows. |
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(2) | After subsection (3) insert— |
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“(3A) | It shall not be a defence for a defendant accused of an offence under this |
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(b) | suffering from non-insane automatism or other similar |
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when the offence was alleged to have taken place.” |
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This Act may be cited as the Rape (Defences) Act 2008. |
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