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Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42) Part 1—Sexual Offences (4) A person commits an offence if he instals equipment, or constructs or adapts a structure or part of a structure, with the intention of enabling himself or another person to commit an offence under subsection (1).

(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—
 * (a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both;
 * (b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.

68 Voyeurism: interpretation

(1) For the purposes of section 67, a person is doing a private act if the person is in a place which, in the circumstances, would reasonably be expected to provide privacy, and—
 * (a) the person’s genitals, buttocks or breasts are exposed or covered only with underwear,
 * (b) the person is using a lavatory, or
 * (c) the person is doing a sexual act that is not of a kind ordinarily done in public.

(2) In section 67, “structure” includes a tent, vehicle or vessel or other temporary or movable structure.

69 Intercourse with an animal

(1) A person commits an offence if—
 * (a) he intentionally performs an act of penetration with his penis,
 * (b) what is penetrated is the vagina or anus of a living animal, and
 * (c) he knows that, or is reckless as to whether, that is what is penetrated.

(2) A person (A) commits an offence if—
 * (a) A intentionally causes, or allows, A’s vagina or anus to be penetrated,
 * (b) the penetration is by the penis of a living animal, and
 * (c) A knows that, or is reckless as to whether, that is what A is being penetrated by.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—
 * (a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both;
 * (b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.

70 Sexual penetration of a corpse

(1) A person commits an offence if—
 * (a) he intentionally performs an act of penetration with a part of his body or anything else,
 * (b) what is penetrated is a part of the body of a dead person,
 * (c) he knows that, or is reckless as to whether, that is what is penetrated, and
 * (d) the penetration is sexual.