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CRIMES (SEXUAL OFFENCES) ACT 2006 (NO 2 OF 2006) - SECT 18 New section 58 substituted

CRIMES (SEXUAL OFFENCES) ACT 2006 (NO 2 OF 2006) - SECT 18

New section 58 substituted

For section 58 of the Crimes Act 1958 substitute

        "58.     Procuring sexual penetration of a child

    (1)     A person aged 18 years or more must not solicit or procure a child under the age of 16 years to take part in an act of sexual penetration, or an indecent act (within the meaning of Subdivision (8D)), outside marriage with him or her or another person.

Penalty:     Level 5 imprisonment (10 years maximum).

    (2)     A person aged 18 years or more must not solicit or procure another person to take part in an act of sexual penetration, or an indecent act (within the meaning of Subdivision (8D)), outside marriage with a child under the age of 16 years.

Penalty:     Level 5 imprisonment (10 years maximum).

    (3)     A person aged 18 years or more must not solicit or procure a 16 or 17 year old child to whom he or she is not married and who is under his or her care, supervision or authority to take part in an act of sexual penetration, or an indecent act (within the meaning of Subdivision (8D)), with him or her or another person.

Penalty:     Level 5 imprisonment (10 years maximum).

    (4)     If—

        (a)     a person does an act or thing referred to in sub-section (1), (2) or (3) outside, or partly outside, Victoria; and

        (b)     there is a real and substantial link within the meaning of sub-section (5) between the doing of the act or thing and Victoria—

those sub-sections apply to the act or thing as if it had been done wholly within Victoria.

    (5)     For the purposes of sub-section (4), there is a real and substantial link with Victoria—

        (a)     if a significant part of the conduct relating to, or constituting the doing of, the act or thing occurred in Victoria; or

        (b)     where the act or thing was done wholly outside Victoria, if the act or thing was done with the intention that the act of sexual penetration or the indecent act occur in Victoria.

    (6)         For the purposes of sub-section (3), and without limiting that sub-section, a child is under the care, supervision or authority of a person if the person is—

        (a)     the child's teacher;

        (b)     the child's foster parent;

        (c)     the child's legal guardian;

        (d)     a minister of religion with pastoral responsibility for the child;

        (e)     the child's employer;

        (f)     the child's youth worker;

        (g)     the child's sports coach;

        (h)     the child's counsellor;

              (i)     the child's health professional;

        (j)     a member of the police force acting in the course of his or her duty in respect of the child;

        (k)     employed in, or providing services in, a remand centre, youth residential centre, youth training centre or prison and is acting in the course of his or her duty in respect of the child.".