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  Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill
  
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  <p>The bill sought to reduce the age at which buggery was legal from 18 to 16.  ("Buggery" is the legal term for anal intercourse either between men or between a man and a woman.)  It also sought to reduce the age at which other homosexual acts were permitted from 18 to 16.</p>
  
  <p><i>The House divided:</i>  Ayes 313, Noes 130.</p>
  
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