[Rev. 2012]
Penal Code
CAP. 63
138. Writing or uttering words with intent to wound religious feelings
Any person who, with the deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings
of any other person, writes any word, or any person who, with the like intention,
utters any word or makes any sound in the hearing of any other person or makes
any gesture or places any object in the sight of any other person, is guilty of a
misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year.
CHAPTER XV – OFFENCES AGAINST MORALITY
139. Deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, Second Sch.
140. Deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, Second Sch.
141. Deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, Second Sch.
142. Deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, Second Sch.
143. Deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, Second Sch.
144. Deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, Second Sch.
145. Deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, Second Sch.
[Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 25.]
146. Defilement of idiots or imbeciles
Any person who, knowing a person to be an idiot or imbecile, has or attempts
to have unlawful carnal connection with him or her under circumstances not
amounting to rape, but which prove that the offender knew at the time of the
commission of the offence that the person was an idiot or imbecile, is guilty of a
felony and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for fourteen years.
[Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 19.]
147. Deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, Second Sch.
148. Deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, Second Sch.
149. Deleted by Act No. 3 of 2006, Second Sch.
150. Deleted by Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 24.
151. Detention of females for immoral purposes
(1) Any person who detains any other person against his or her will—
(a) in or upon any premises with intent that he or she may have unlawful
sexual connection with any person, whether any particular person or
generally; or
(b) in any brothel,
is guilty of a felony.
(2) A person in or upon any premises for the purpose of having any unlawful
sexual connection, or in any brothel, shall be deemed to be detained therein by
any other person who, with intent to compel or induce that person to remain in or
upon the premises or in the brothel—
(a) withholds from that person any wearing apparel or other property
belonging to that person; or
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