Sex Laws Info

Voyeurism

The Sexual Offences Act 2003

A person commits an offence if—

For the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, he observes another person doing a private act, and he knows that the other person does not consent to being observed for his sexual gratification. or he instals equipment, or constructs or adapts a structure or part of a structure, with the intention of enabling such an act.

He operates equipment with the intention of enabling another person to observe, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, a third person doing a private act, and he knows that they do not consent to his operating equipment with that intention.

He records another person doing a private act, He does so with the intention that he or a third person will, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, look at an image of the act, and he knows that there is no consent to his recording the act with that intention.

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.

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