New Clause 13 - Use of electronic communication to engage in, incite, entice, or solicit an act of gross indecency with a child: amendment of the indecency with children act 1960
Criminal Justice and Police Bill
9:30 pm
Mr Jimmy Hood (Clydesdale, Labour)
With this will be convenient to take the following: New clause 18— Use of electronic communications to entice an act of gross indecency with a child—
`—(1) Any person aged eighteen or over who intentionally uses an electronic communication for the purpose of enticing a child, or other person who is believed by such person to be a child, to meet him in order to be able to engage in an act of gross indecency, is guilty of an offence and shall be liable—
(i) on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to a fine, or to both; or
(ii) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or to both.'.