195 Pardons for certain convictions or cautions

195  Pardons for certain convictions or cautions

(1)     The Policing and Crime Act 2017 is amended in accordance with subsections (2) to (13).

(2)     Section 164 (posthumous pardons for convictions etc of certain abolished offences) is amended in accordance with subsections (3) to (10).

(3)     Before subsection (1) insert—

“(A1)     Subsection (1) applies in relation to a person—

(a)     who was convicted of, or cautioned for, an offence in circumstances where the conduct constituting the offence was sexual activity between persons of the same sex, and

(b)     who died before the end of the period of twelve months beginning with—

(i)     the day on which section 194 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 comes into force, or

(ii)     if later, the day on which the offence referred to in paragraph (a) became an abolished offence (see subsection (1A)).”

(4)     For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1)     The person is pardoned for the offence if—

(a)     any other person involved in the sexual

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