The K-Zone: Criminal Justice and Public Order Act (1994)

``An Act to make further provision in relation to criminal justice (including employment in the prison service); to amend or extend the criminal law and powers for preventing crime and enforcing that law; to amend the Video Recordings Act 1984; and for purposes connected with those purposes'' This wide-ranging act consolidates and ammends a number of criminal law provisions, including the extension of stop and search powers, and modification of the definition of `rape' to allow it to cover cases where a woman is raped by her husband.

See: Rape StopAndSearch AdmissibilityOfEvidence RightToSilence AggravatedTrespass

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