Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007
(a) that the female person was the spouse of the accused person at the time of any sexual
intercourse or other act that forms the subject of the charge:
Provided that no prosecution shall be instituted against any husband for raping or
indecently assaulting his wife in contravention of section sixty-six or sixty-seven unless
the Attorney-General has authorised such a prosecution; or
(b) subject to sections six, seven and sixty-three, that the accused person was a male
person below the age of fourteen years at the time of the sexual intercourse or other act
that forms the subject of the charge.
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Cases where consent absent or vitiated
(1) Without limiting Part XII of Chapter XIV, a person shall be deemed not to have
consented to sexual intercourse or any other act that forms the subject of a charge of rape,
aggravated indecent assault or indecent assault, where the person charged with the crime⎯
(a) uses violence or threats of violence or intimidation or unlawful pressure to induce the
other person to submit; or
(b) by means of a fraudulent misrepresentation induces the other person to believe that
something other than sexual intercourse or an indecent act, as the case may be, is
taking place; or
(c) induces the other person to have sexual intercourse or to submit to the performance of
the indecent act, as the case may be, by impersonating that other person’s spouse, or
lover; or
(d) has sexual intercourse or performs an indecent act upon the other person while that
other person is asleep, and that other person has not consented to the sexual intercourse
or the performance of the act before falling asleep; or
(e) has sexual intercourse or performs an indecent act upon the other person while that
other person is hypnotised or intoxicated from the consumption of drugs or alcohol so
as to be incapable of giving consent to the sexual intercourse or the performance of the
act, and that other person has not consented to the sexual intercourse or the
performance of the act before becoming so hypnotised or intoxicated.
(2) The burden of proving that a person referred to in paragraph (d) or (e) of subsection (1)
gave consent to sexual intercourse or the performance of an indecent act before falling asleep or
becoming hypnotised or intoxicated, as the case may be, shall lie with the person charged.
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Sexual intercourse or performing indecent acts with young persons
(1) Subject to subsection (2), any person who—
(a) has extra-marital sexual intercourse with a young person; or
(b) commits upon a young person any act involving physical contact that would be
regarded by a reasonable person to be an indecent act; or
(c) solicits or entices a young person to have extra-marital sexual intercourse with him or
her or to commit any act with him or her involving physical contact that would be
regarded by a reasonable person to be an indecent act;
shall be guilty of sexual intercourse or performing an indecent act with a young person, as the
case may be, and liable to a fine not exceeding level twelve or imprisonment for a period not
exceeding ten years or both.
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