Scottish Government consults on legalising sex between 13-year-olds
Wednesday, 12 March 2008

A consultation on whether teenagers as young as 13 should be allowed to have sex is being run by the Scottish Government.

The consultation into sexual offences asks whether the law should be changed so that it would be legal for a teenager to have sex with another teenager, providing there is a two-year age gap or less.

The consultation, which ends on Friday, 14 March, is a response to a Scottish Law Commission report published in December 2007. the rest