CAP. 63
Penal Code
[Rev. 2012]
157. Conspiracy to defile
(1) Any person who conspires with another to induce any woman or girl, by
means of any false pretence or other fraudulent means, to permit any man to have
unlawful carnal knowledge of her is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment
for three years.
(2) Any person who conspires with another to induce any man or boy, by means
of any false pretence or other fraudulent means, to permit any person to have
unlawful sexual connexion with him is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment
for three years.
[Act No. 42 of 1951, s. 6.]
158. Attempts to procure abortion
Any person who, with intent to procure miscarriage of a woman, whether she is
or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her or causes her to take any poison
or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means
whatever, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
159. The like by woman with child
Any woman who, being with child, with intent to procure her own miscarriage,
unlawfully administers to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any
force of any kind, or uses any other means whatever, or permits any such thing
or means to be administered or used to her, is guilty of a felony and is liable to
imprisonment for seven years.
160. Supplying drugs or instruments to procure abortion
Any person who unlawfully supplies to or procures for any person any thing
whatever, knowing that it is intended to be unlawfully used to procure the
miscarriage of a woman whether she is or is not with child, is guilty of a felony and
is liable to imprisonment for three years.
161. Deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, Second Sch.
162. Unnatural offences
Any person who—
(a) has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature; or
(b) has carnal knowledge of an animal; or
(c) permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against
the order of nature,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years:
Provided that, in the case of an offence under paragraph (a), the offender shall
be liable to imprisonment for twenty-one years if—
(i) the offence was committed without the consent of the person who was
carnally known; or
(ii) the offence was committed with that person’s consent but the consent
was obtained by force or by means of threats or intimidation of some
kind, or by fear of bodily harm, or by means of false representations
as to the nature of the act.
[Act No. 42 of 1951, s. 6, Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 30.]
[Issue 1]
P6-60
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