Sexual Offences Act 1956

The Sexual Offences Act 1956 consolidated the English criminal law relating to sexual offences between 1957 and 2004. It was mostly repealed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, but sections 33 to 37 still survive. These sections create offences to deal with brothels, and prescribe penalties for these offences, including imprisonment for up to seven years in the Crown Court. The act defined a brothel as a premises where more than one person offers sexual contact, whether for payment or not, and established different penalties for summary and indictable offences. The act was replaced by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which introduced a new section 33A creating an aggravated version of the offence in section 33.learn more on wikipedia