Sexual Offences Act 1967

Public General Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Sexual Offences Act 1967 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom (citation 1967 c. 60). It legalized homosexual acts in England and Wales, on the condition that they were consensual, in private and between two men who had attained the age of 21. The law was extended to other parts of the UK respectively by 1982.