division_name: Extension of Corresponding Northern Ireland Offence: Conduct Towards 14 to 16 Year Olds. 1960 C. 33.
motion: <p pid="a.1539.0/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 33:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.1539.0/2" pwmotiontext="moved">After Clause 38, insert the following new clause--</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/3" pwmotiontext="moved">:TITLE3:USE OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS TO INCITE AN ACT OF GROSS INDECENCY WITH A CHILD</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/4" pwmotiontext="moved">(" . After section 1 of the Indecency with Children Act 1960 (indecent conduct towards young child), there shall be inserted--</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/5" pwmotiontext="moved">"Use of electronic communication to incite acts of gross indecency with children.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/6" pwmotiontext="moved">1A.--(1) In this section, except where otherwise stated, "child" means a person under the age of sixteen years.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/7" pwmotiontext="moved">(2) Any person who uses electronic communication for the purposes of--</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/8" pwmotiontext="moved">(a) engaging in an act of gross indecency with a person he knows or has reason to believe is a child;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/9" pwmotiontext="moved">(b) inciting a person he knows or has reason to believe is a child to meet with him with the intent of engaging in an act of gross indecency; or</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/10" pwmotiontext="moved">(c) soliciting a person he knows or has reason to believe is a child to engage in any act that would constitute an offence under section 1 or under section 2(a) or 2(b),</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/11" pwmotiontext="moved">is guilty of an offence and shall be liable--</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/12" pwmotiontext="moved">(i) on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or to a fine, or to both; or</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/13" pwmotiontext="moved">(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.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/14" pwmotiontext="moved">(3) References in the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 to the offences mentioned in the first Schedule to that Act shall include offences under this section.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/15" pwmotiontext="moved">(4) Offences under this section shall be deemed to be offences against the person for the purpose of section 3 of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 (which restricts the trial by the United Kingdom courts of offenders connected with visiting forces).</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1539.0/16" pwmotiontext="moved">(5) In this section, "electronic communication" has the meaning given by section 15 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000."").</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1544.1/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 33) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1544.1/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 104; Not-Contents, 185.</p>