-Indecency With Children Act of 567AER-

==PREAMBLE==
Dear colleagues from this and the other side of the aisle, I bring to you a piece of legislation to fill the judicial vacuum in regards to sexual offenses towards children. Our children are the future of the Empire and of civilisation as a whole -- their protection from all harm, whether physical or emotion, is a priority of the Socialist Party and the Opposition as a whole. 
-- Trevor Noah, MP
==INDECENCY WITH CHILDREN ACT 567AER==
Be it enacted by the Emperor's most Excellent Majesty, Vinther III, by and with the advice and consent of the Chamber of Deputies and the Imperial Senate, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 
DEFINITION: An Act to make further provision for the punishment of indecent conduct towards young children, and to increase the maximum sentence of imprisonment under current criminal law.
CLAUSE 1.1: Any person who commits an act of gross indecency with or towards a child under the age of fourteen, or who incites a child under that age to such an act with him or another, shall be liable of conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a teerm not exceeding two years, or on summar conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, to a fine not exceeding five thousand Fall, or to both. 
CLAUSE 1.2: On a charge of an offence under this section, the wife or husband of the accused shall be competent to give evidence at every stage of the proceedings, whether for the defence or for the prosecution, and whether the accused is charged solely or jointly with any other person: 
===Provided that--===
*(a) the wife or husband shall not be compellable either to give evidence or, in giving evidence, to disclose any communication made to her or him during the marriage by the accused; and 
*(b) the failure of the wife or husband of the accused to give evidence shall not be made the subject of any comment by the prosecution. 
CLAUSE 2.1: The maximum term of imprisonment to which a person is liable under this act, if convicted on indictment of an attempt to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a child under the age of thirteen, or of an indecent assault on a child who is stated in the indictment and proved to have been at the time under that age,--
*(a) in the case of such an attempt, shall be seven years; and
*(b) in the case of an indecent assault, shall be five years.
CLAUSE 2.2: In the case of a person convicted of attempted incest with a child who is stated in the indictment and proved to have been at the time under the age of thirteen the foregoing subsection shall apply as it applies in the case of a person convicted of an attempt to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a child under that age.
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