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  Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - After Clause 54 - Intimidatory Offences Aggravated by Sex or Gender
  
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  @ MP voted aye not to create a new offence of harassment aggravated by hostility towards sex or gender but to require the Government to respond, within a year, to a recommendation that "sex or gender should not be added as a protected characteristic for the purposes of aggravated offences and enhanced sentencing". 
  
  
  @ MP voted no to create a new offence of harassment aggravated by hostility towards sex or gender but not to require the Government to respond, within a year, to a recommendation that "sex or gender should not be added as a protected characteristic for the purposes of aggravated offences and enhanced sentencing".   
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to create a new offence of harassment aggravated by hostility towards sex or gender but to require the Government to respond, within a year, to a recommendation that "sex or gender should not be added as a protected characteristic for the purposes of aggravated offences and enhanced sentencing". 
  
  MPs were considering the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill[1][2]
  
  The motion supported by a majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That this House disagrees with the Lords in their amendment 72B and proposes amendments (a) and (b) in lieu.
  
  Lords amendment 72B began:[4]
  
  :After Clause 54, insert the following new Clauseâ
  :â''Intimidatory offences aggravated by sex or gender''
  :(1) A person must not commit an actâ
  :(a) which amounts to harassment or intimidation of another,
  :(b) which he or she knows or ought to know amounts to harassment or intimidation of the other, and
  :(c) which is aggravated by hostility towards sex or gender.
  :(2) For the purposes of this section, the person whose act is in question ought to know that it amounts to or involves harassment or intimidation of another if a reasonable person in possession of the same information would think the act amounted to harassment or intimidation of the other.
  :(3) Subsection (1) or (2) does not apply to an act if the person who pursued it showsâ
  :(a) that it was pursued for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime,
  :(b) that it was pursued under any enactment or rule of law or to comply with any condition or requirement imposed by any person under any enactment, or
  :(c) that in the particular circumstances the conduct was reasonable.
  :(4) A person who commits an act in breach of subsection (1) is guilty of an offence.
  :...
  
  The clause continued with details of provisions relating to sentencing, interpretation and the reporting of statistics. 
  
  Commons amendments (a) and (b) in lieu stated:[5]
  
  (a):
  
  :Page 46, line 35, at end insert the following new Clauseâ
  :"''Response to Law Commission report on hate crime laws''
  :(1) The Secretary of State must, before the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which this Act is passedâ
  :(a) prepare and publish a response to Recommendation 8 of the [https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lawcom-prod-storage-11jsxou24uy7q/uploads/2021/12/Hate-crime-report-accessible.pdf Law Commission report on hate crime] (adding sex or gender as a protected characteristic for the purposes of aggravated offences and enhanced sentencing), and
  :(b) lay the response before Parliament.
  :(2) In this section âthe Law Commission report on hate crimeâ means [https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lawcom-prod-storage-11jsxou24uy7q/uploads/2021/12/Hate-crime-report-accessible.pdf the Law Commission report âHate Crime Lawsâ that was published on 7 December 2021].â
  
  (b):
  
  :Page 195, line 27, at end insertâ
  :â(ka) section (Response to Law Commission report on hate crime laws);â
  
  Amendment (b) relates to commencement and provides for the provision in amendment (a) to come into force on the day on which the Act is passed. 
  
  Recommendation 8 of the [https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lawcom-prod-storage-11jsxou24uy7q/uploads/2021/12/Hate-crime-report-accessible.pdf Law Commission report on hate crime] stated:[6]
  
  :We recommend that sex or gender should not be added as a protected characteristic for the purposes of aggravated offences and enhanced sentencing.
  
  
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  * [1] [https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2839 Parliament's webpage on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill], Parliament.uk
  * [3] [https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/42132/documents/484 Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, as introduced on 6 July 2021], Parliament.uk
  * [2] [https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/42162/documents/494 Explanatory notes to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, as introduced on 6 July 2021], Parliament.uk
  * [4] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0291/210291.pdf Lords amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, 23 March 2022], Parliament.uk
  * [5] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0291/amend/police_day_cclm_0328.pdf Amendment paper for consideration of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, 28 March 2022], Parliament.uk 
  * [6] [https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lawcom-prod-storage-11jsxou24uy7q/uploads/2021/12/Hate-crime-report-accessible.pdf The Law Commission report âHate Crime Lawsâ, published on 7 December 2021], AmazonAWS.com (linked from the [https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/hate-crime/ Hate Crime project page on the Law Commission website], Gov.uk
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