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Act index » Part I - Offences » Division 1 - Offences against the person » Subdivision (8A) - Rape, sexual assault and associated sexual offences
44 Procuring sexual act by threat
(1)A person (A) commits an offence if—
(a)A makes a threat to another person (B) that A will cause harm of any kind to B, another person or an animal; and
(b)A intends that B will believe, or believes that B will probably believe, that A will cause that harm; and
(c)as a result of A's threat, B or another person takes part (whether at the time the threat is made or at a later time) in a sexual act with A or another person; and
(d)A intends that, as a result of A's threat, an outcome mentioned in paragraph (c) will occur.
(2)A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable to level 5 imprisonment (10 years maximum).
(3)For the purposes of subsection (1), a threat may be made by words or conduct and may be explicit or implicit.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (1)(c), a person who takes part in a sexual act with A or another person may or may not be the person to whom A has threatened to cause harm.