Meanings of criminalise the purchase in English

Cabinet today agreed to proceed with legislation to criminalise the purchase of sex.

Legislation to criminalise the purchase of sex will be introduced to the Dáil tomorrow.

This argument, of course, forms the rationale for her proposals to criminalise the purchase of sex.

At its weekly meeting, the Cabinet agreed to proceed with legislation to criminalise the purchase of sex and the engagement of prostitutes.

Currently, momentum is building to enact legislation that would criminalise the purchase of the former and set a minimum price for the latter.

Proposed legislation to criminalise the purchase of sex must also decriminalise prostitution, a Swedish expert on such legislation has said Detective (...)

This included Norway, which criminalised the purchase of sex in 2009.

Take the planned introduction of new laws criminalising the purchase of sex in Ireland, north and south.

Ms Fitzgerald is bringing a memo to Cabinet on the issue, alongside proposals to criminalise the purchasing of sex.

New laws criminalising the purchase of sex and introducing new offences relating to the sexual exploitation of children will take effect from Monday.

Fiona MacTaggart, a senior MP, tried to introduce an amendment criminalising the purchase of sexual services in the modern slavery bill of 2014.

To ignore this, at a time when the Government is set to pass a law criminalising the purchase of sex, is an egregious error.

The conference, organised by the Dignity project, was told that the Swedish system of criminalising the purchasing of sex was effective in combating the problem.

A spate of recent violent attacks on sex-workers was a "direct consequence" of legislation criminalising the purchase of sex, a campaign group has said.

All four of these Scandinavian countries have, to some degree, criminalised the purchase of sex (legislation that the UK will adopt on 1 April).