Call To Drop Charges (Press, 18 August 1986)
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Summary: Call To Drop Charges (Press, 18 August 1986)
On 18 August 1986, the Gay Task Force in Auckland urged the police to withdraw pending sodomy charges in light of the new legislation that took effect on 15 August 1986. This change resulted from the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill in Parliament. Mr Peter Wall, spokesman for the task force, stated that if the charges were not dismissed, they should instead be reclassified as sexual violation. Before the law's implementation, individuals had been charged with sodomy, but with the new law, which legalised sexual activity between consenting adults over the age of 16, sodomy was considered a crime only in name. The amendment in terminology from "sodomy" to sexual violation highlighted the shift in legal perspective surrounding consensual adult relationships.
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