8What are Class 3 and Class 4 offences?

8 What are Class 3 and Class 4 offences? (1) A Class 3 offence is an offence listed in Schedule 3 committed against a person other than a child by a person who is (whether because of, or apart from, that offence) a serious sexual offender for the purposes of this section. (2) A Class 4 offence is an offence listed in Schedule 4 committed against a person other than a child by a person who is (whether because of, or apart from, that offence) a serious sexual offender for the purposes of this section. (3) For the purposes of this section a person is a serious sexual offender if he or she has at any time (whether before, on or after 1 October 2004) been sentenced by a court for 2 or more offences listed in a Schedule to this Act whether— (a) in the one trial or hearing; or (b) in different trials or hearings held at different times; or S. 8(3)(c) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 112.2). (c) in separate trials of different charges in the one indictment. The term ***serious sexual offender*** is also defined in section 6B of the **Sentencing Act 1991** for the purposes of Part 2A of that Act. However, the term is differently defined in that Act. S. 9 substituted by No. 34/2005 s. 8.