Clause 15 - Arranging or facilitating commission of a child sex offence
Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]
9:30 am
Ms Harriet Harman (Solicitor General, Law Officers' Department; Camberwell and Peckham, Labour)
I hope that I can assist the hon. Lady by taking her through the stages. First the offence must be considered. We then consider whether the person comes within the exception. If they do, it must be determined whether they fall out of the exception and back into the offence by virtue of obtaining sexual gratification. The pimp would not get into the exception. The question of whether he was obtaining sexual gratification would not arise, because
he would be guilty of the substantive offence and would not escape on account of the exception. Accordingly, the person would not need to be brought back into the offence by this further narrowing of the measure.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 15, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.