Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007
PART III
SEXUAL CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST MORALITY
Division A: Preliminary
61. Interpretation in Part III of Chapter V.
62. Presumption regarding marriage.
63. Amendment of presumption that boy under 14 incapable of sexual intercourse.
64. Competent charges in cases of unlawful sexual conduct involving young or mentally
incompetent persons.
Division B: Sexual Crimes
65. Rape.
66. Aggravated indecent assault.
67. Indecent assault.
68. Unavailable defences to rape, aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault.
69. Cases where consent absent or vitiated.
70. Sexual intercourse or performing indecent acts with young persons.
71. Sexual crimes committed against young or mentally incompetent persons outside
Zimbabwe.
72. Prevention of conspiracy or incitement abroad to commit sexual crimes against young or
mentally incompetent persons in Zimbabwe.
73. Sodomy.
74. Bestiality.
75. Sexual intercourse within a prohibited degree of relationship.
76. Complicity in sexual crimes.
Division C: Indecent or sexual conduct harmful
to public morals or public health
77. Public indecency.
78. Deliberate infection of another with a sexually-transmitted disease.
Division D: Transmitting HIV deliberately or in the course
of committing sexual crimes
79. Deliberate transmission of HIV.
80. Sentence for certain crimes where accused is infected with HIV.
Division E: Crimes relating to prostitution or
the facilitation of sexual crimes
81. Soliciting.
82. Living off or facilitating prostitution.
83. Procuring.
84. Coercing or inducing persons for purpose of engaging in sexual conduct.
85. Detaining persons for purpose of engaging in unlawful sexual conduct.
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