Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007 in paragraph (b) or (j) of subsection (2) of section 75 of the Criminal Law Code. (2) If, on or after the date of commencement of the Criminal Law Code, a marriage is contracted or purports to be contracted between parties who are related to each other as first or second cousins without belonging to a community referred to in subsection (3) of section 75 of the Criminal Law Code, and at the time of the solemnisation of the marriage— (a) the parties knew or realised that there was a real risk or possibility that they were related to each other as first or second cousins, such marriage shall be void; (b) one of the parties knew or realised that there was a real risk or possibility that they were related to each other as first or second cousins, such marriage shall be voidable at the instance of the party who was not so aware within twelve months from the time when he or she became so aware; (c) the parties did not know or realise that there was a real risk or possibility that they were related to each other as first or second cousins, such marriage shall not be void or voidable. (3) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that a marriage between persons who are related to each other as first or second cousins shall not be void or voidable if such marriage was contracted before the date of commencement of the Criminal Law Code.”. PART V MAGISTRATES COURT ACT [CHAPTER 7:10] In section 51 by the repeal of subsections (4) and (5) and the substitution of— “(4) Notwithstanding section fifty, the jurisdiction of— (a) a regional magistrate in respect of punishment for a sexual offence, whether on summary trial or remittal of the case for trial or sentence by the Attorney-General, shall be— (i) imprisonment for a period not exceeding twenty years; (ii) a fine not exceeding level fourteen; or both such fine and such imprisonment; (b) a regional magistrate in respect of the offence prescribed or any offender referred to in section 78 (“Deliberate infection of another with a sexuallytransmitted disease”) or 79 (“Deliberate transmission of HIV”) of the Criminal Law Code, the penalties prescribed in those provisions; (c) a magistrate, other than a regional magistrate, in respect of punishment for a contravention of Chapter VII of the Criminal Law Code (“Offences Relating to Dangerous Drugs”), whether on summary trial or remittal of the case for trial or sentence by the Attorney-General, shall be— (i) imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years; (ii) a fine not exceeding level twelve; - 163 -