CAP. 62A Sexual Offences Sexual Offences [Rev. 2012] (3) Any person who being the manager of any hospital or staff of a hospital takes advantage of his or her position and has sexual intercourse with or commits any other sexual offence under this Act with any patient in the hospital, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape or defilement shall be guilty of an offence of abuse of position of authority and shall be liable upon conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than ten years. (4) Any person who being the head-teacher, teacher or employee in a primary or secondary school or special institution of learning whether formal or informal, takes advantage of his or her official position and induces or seduces a pupil or student to have sexual intercourse with him or her or commits any other offence under this Act, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape or defilement, shall be guilty of an offence of abuse of position of authority and shall be liable upon conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than ten years. (5) Any person who being in a position of trust takes advantage of his or her position and induces or seduces a person in their care to have sexual intercourse with him or her or commits any other offence under this Act, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape or defilement, shall be guilty of an offence of abuse of position of trust and shall be liable upon conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than ten years. 25. Sexual relationships which pre-date position of authority or trust (1) Conduct by a person which would otherwise be an offence under this Act against another person is not an offence under section 24 if, immediately before the position of authority or trust arose, a sexual relationship existed between that person and the other person. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if at that time sexual intercourse between such persons would have been unlawful. (3) In proceedings for an offence under this section it is for the accused person to prove that such a relationship existed at that time. 26. Deliberate transmission of HIV or any other life threatening sexually transmitted disease (1) Any person who, having actual knowledge that he or she is infected with HIV or any other life threatening sexually transmitted disease intentionally, knowingly and willfully does anything or permits the doing of anything which he or she knows or ought to reasonably know— (a) will infect another person with HIV or any other life threatening sexually transmitted disease; (b) is likely to lead to another person being infected with HIV or any other life threatening sexually transmitted disease; (c) will infect another person with any other sexually transmitted disease, shall be guilty of an offence, whether or not he or she is married to that other person, and shall be liable upon conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less fifteen years but which may be for life. [Issue 1] S9 - 16

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