AI-assisted research summary: This Act changes Northern Ireland law on offences against people under 16 and increases penalties for convictions under section 13 of the 1885 Act.
Criminal Law Amendment Act (Northern Ireland) 1923 An Act to amend the law in Northern Ireland with respect to offences against persons under the age of sixteen, and with respect to penalties under section thirteen of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885. It shall be no defence to a charge or indictment for an indecent assault on a child or young person under the age of [ seventeen] to prove that he or she consented to the act of indecency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Any person who is convicted of an offence against section thirteen of the principal Act (which relates to summary proceedings against brothel keepers, &c.) shall be liable on summary conviction— to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment. … for a term not exceeding three months; and on a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds or to imprisonment. … for a term not exceeding six months; or, in any such case, to both fine and imprisonment. Subs. (1) rep. by 1954 c.33 (NI); subs.(2) rep. by SLR (NI) 1952 This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law Amendment Act (Northern Ireland), 1923; and the Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1885 to 1912, and this Act may, to the extent to which they apply to Northern Ireland, be cited together as the Criminal Law Amendment Acts (Northern Ireland), 1885 to 1923. Schedule rep. by SLR (NI) 1952 1986 NI 4 1950 c.5 (NI) S. 2 repealed (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, 83, Sch. 1 para. 7(2), Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2 1956 c.69 1953 c.14 (NI)