provides any service specified in subsection (4) , and
A
bill
to
Make it an offence to provide or advertise cheating services for Higher Education assessments.
B e it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
A person commits an offence if the person—
provides any service specified in subsection (4) , and
receives (or reasonably expects to receive) a payment, financial reward
or other financial benefit in connection with the provision of that
service.
A person commits an offence if the person advertises any service specified
in
subsection (4)
.
A person commits an offence if that person, without reasonable excuse,
publishes an
advertisement for any service specified in
subsection
(4)
.
The services referred to in
subsections (1)
to
(3)
are those provided
to a student
enrolled at a Higher Education provider in England which consist of—
completing (in whole or in part) on behalf of the student an
assignment, examination or
any other work that the student is required
to complete personally as part of a Higher
Education course without
authorisation from the person who imposed the requirement, such
that the assignment, examination or other work could not reasonably
be considered that of
the student, or
arranging for another person to complete (in whole or in part) on
behalf of the student an
assignment, examination or any other work
that the student is required to complete
personally as part of a Higher
Education course without authorisation from the person who
imposed
the requirement, such that the assignment, examination or other work
could not
reasonably be considered that of the student.
A person shall not be guilty of an offence in
subsection (1)
,
(2)
or
(3)
if they
demonstrate that
they did not know and could not with reasonable diligence
know that the service might or
would be used by a student enrolled on a
Higher Education course to complete an assignment,
examination or other
work that the student is required to undertake personally as part of
that
course without authorisation from the person who imposed the requirement.
Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under
this section
and the
offence is committed with the consent or connivance of, or
attributable to
negligence on the part of, a director, manager, secretary or other similar
officer
of the body corporate, or a person who was purporting to act in any such
capacity, he
or she, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of that offence
and liable to be proceeded
against and punished accordingly.
A person who commits an offence under this section is liable—
on summary conviction, to a fine;
on conviction on indictment, to a fine.
This Act extends to England and Wales only.
This Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.
This Act may be cited as the Higher Education Cheating Services Prohibition
Act 2021.
A
bill
to
Make it an offence to provide or advertise cheating services for Higher Education assessments.
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