Section 20
Presumption of age of a child
of Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017
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Section 20
It is not a defence to a charge for any offence under this Act, or any offence specified in the Schedule where the victim is a child, that an accused believed that the age of the child is or more than that as specified in the respective provisions of such offences at the time the offence is alleged to have been committed unless the accused took all reasonable steps to ascertain the age of the child.