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Definition of Riot 78. (1) If three or more persons together in any public or private place commence or attempt to do any of the following things, namely — (a)to execute any common purpose with violence and without lawful authority to use such violence for that purpose; (b) (b) to execute a common purpose of obstructing or resisting the execution of any legal process or authority; (c) to facilitate, by force or by show of force or of numbers, the commission of any crime, they are guilty of a riot.

Unlawful Assemblies & Proclamation Definition of Riot • 79. (1) An unlawful assembly is an assembly of three or more persons who, with intent to carry out any common purpose, assemble in such a manner, or so conduct themselves when assembled, as to cause persons in the neighbourhood of such assembly to fear, on reasonable grounds, that the persons so assembled will disturb the peace tumultuously, or will, by such assembly, needlessly and without any reasonable occasion provoke other persons to disturb the peace tumultuously.

Unlawful Assemblies & Proclamation Definition of Riot (2) Persons lawfully assembled together may become an unlawful assembly if they conduct themselves, with a common purpose, in such a manner as would have made their assembling unlawful if they had assembled in that manner for that purpose. (3) An assembly of three or more persons for the purpose of protecting the house of any one of their number against persons threatening to break and enter such house in order to commit any crime therein is not unlawful.

Making of Proclamation for Rioters to Disperse 80. (1) Any magistrate or, in the absence of any magistrate, any justice of the peace or any commissioned officer in Her Majesty’s military or naval service in whose view a riot is being committed, or who apprehends that a riot is about to be committed by persons assembled within his view, may make or cause to be made a proclamation in the Queen’s name, commanding the rioters or persons so assembled to disperse peaceably. Sec 81...

Abetment & Conspiracy Definition of Abetment:- 86. (1) Whoever directly or indirectly, instigates, commands, counsels, procures, solicits or in any manner purposely aids, facilitates, encourages or promotes, whether by his act or presence or otherwise, and every person who does any act for the purpose of aiding, facilitating, encouraging or promoting the commission of an offence by any other person, whether known or unknown, certain or uncertain, is guilty of abetting that offence, and of abetting the other person in respect of that offence.

Abetment & Conspiracy • Sec 87-88 • Definition of Conspiracy 89 (1) If two or more persons agree or act together with a common purpose in committing or abetting an offence whether with or without any previous concert or deliberation, each of them is guilty of conspiracy to commit or abet that offence as the case may be. • Sections 90-96

Arrest without Warrant Section 104: (1) Any peace officer and all persons whom he shall call to his assistance may arrest and take persons into custody without a warrant in the following cases — (a) any person whom he finds committing an offence against the person or against property as to which it is provided under this Code that the offender may be punished by imprisonment;

Arrest without Warrant (b) any intoxicated or idle or disorderly person whom he finds in any way disturbing the peace, whether in a public or private place, and causing public annoyance, or guilty of any other offence against the law which may be an outrage of public decency or morality; (c) any person whom he finds during the night lying or loitering in any highway, yard or other place and whom he shall have good cause to suspect of having committed, or being about to commit, any offence against this Code;

Arrest without Warrant (d) any person whom any other person positively charges or states that he suspects of having committed any crime or the offence of stealing or obtaining goods by false pretences, or receiving stolen goods, or the offence of cruelty to or causing injury to an animal, if the charge or suspicion appears to the peace officer to be well founded and the informant is willing to accompany the peace officer and at the police station is willing to enter into recognisance conditioned to prosecute the charge; (e) any person whom any other person charges with having committed an aggravated assault, if the peace officer has good reason to believe that such an assault has been committed, although not within his view, and that by reason of its recent commission a warrant could not have been obtained for the apprehension of the person charged. Sections 105-106...

Justifiable Force & Harm 107. (1) For the prevention of, or for the defence of himself or any other person against, any crime, a person may justify the use of necessary force, not extending to a blow, wound or grievous harm. (2) For the prevention of, or for the defence of himself or any other person against, any criminal force or harm, a person may justify the use of necessary force, not extending to a wound or grievous harm.

Justifiable Force & Harm (3) For the prevention of, or for the defence of himself or any other person against, any felony, a person may justify the use of necessary force not extending to dangerous harm. (4) For the prevention of, or for the defence of himself or any other person against, any of the following crimes, a person may justify any necessary force or harm, extending, in the case of extreme necessity, even to killing, namely — (a) treason; (b) piracy; (c) murder; (d) manslaughter, except manslaughter by negligence; (e) robbery; (f) burglary; (g) house-breaking; (h) arson of a dwelling-house or vessel; (i) rape; (j) forcible unnatural crime; (k) dangerous or grievous harm.

Justifiable Force & Harm (5) For the suppression or dispersion of a riotous or unlawful assembly, force may be justified in the cases and subject to the conditions specified in this Code with respect to such assemblies. (6) No force used in an unlawful fight can be justified under any provision of this Code; and every fight is an unlawful fight in which a person engages, or which he maintains, otherwise than solely in pursuance of some of the matters of justification specified in this Title. Sections 108-113...

Causing Bodily harm, Wounding & Assaults etc. • Section 133... Indecent Assault •134. Whoever commits an indecent assault upon another person, whether male or female, shall be liable to imprisonment for six month. • Sections-135-136... Stealing Offence including Fraud & False Pretences 139. Whoever steals anything, the value of which does not in the opinion of the court exceed five hundred dollars, such stealing not being accompanied by housebreaking or burglary, nor amounting to robbery or extortion, shall be liable to imprisonment for three months.

Causing Bodily harm, Wounding & Assaults etc. 140. Whoever is convicted of — (1) any of the undermentioned offences, where the value of the property alleged to have been stolen or obtained does not in the opinion of the court exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, namely, any of the offences following — (a) stealing anything of which he had the custody, control or possession, or to which he had the means of access, by reason of any office, employment or service; (b) stealing from or in any dwelling-house, shop, manufactory, warehouse, dock, wharf or quay adjacent to any harbour or port of entry or discharge, or from, or in any vessel (not being a vessel in distress or wrecked, stranded or cast on shore);

Causing Bodily harm, Wounding & Assaults etc. (c) stealing from the person; (d) stealing any cattle; (e) committing a fraudulent breach of trust; or (2) any attempt to commit any of the offences herein referred to; (3) any abetment, or conspiracy for the commission of any of the said offences, shall, if the offender had not been previously convicted of a similar offence, be liable to imprisonment for three months, or to a fine of five hundred dollars, or to both. • Section 141-143...

Homicide Offences/Murder 289. Whoever causes the death of another person by any unlawful harm is guilty of manslaughter. If the harm was negligently caused, he is guilty only of manslaughter by negligence. 290. Whoever intentionally causes the death of another person by any unlawful harm is guilty of murder, unless his crime is reduced to manslaughter by reason of such extreme provocation, or other matter of partial excuse, as in this Title hereafter mentioned. Section 291-297...

Homicide Offences/Murder 298. (1) Where a woman by any willful act or omission causes the death of her child, being a child under the age of twelve months, but at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child, then, notwithstanding that the circumstances were such that but for this section the offence would have amounted to murder, she shall be guilty of felony, to wit, of infanticide, and may for such offence be dealt with and punished as if she had been guilty of the offence of manslaughter of the child.

• Homicide Offences/Murder • 289. Whoever causes the death of another person by any unlawful harm is guilty of manslaughter. If the harm was negligently caused, he is guilty only of manslaughter by negligence. • 290. Whoever intentionally causes the death of another person by any unlawful harm is guilty of murder, unless his crime is reduced to manslaughter by reason of such extreme provocation, or other matter of partial excuse, as in this Title hereafter mentioned.

Homicide Offences/Murder • Section 291-297... • 298. (1) Where a woman by any willful act or omission causes the death of her child, being a child under the age of twelve months, but at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child, then, notwithstanding that the circumstances were such that but for this section the offence would have amounted to murder, she shall be guilty of felony, to wit, of infanticide, and may for such offence be dealt with and punished as if she had been guilty of the offence of manslaughter of the child.

Sections 299-300... • 301. (1) Notwithstanding proof on behalf of the accused person of such matter of extreme provocation as in section 300 is mentioned, his crime shall not be deemed to be thereby reduced to manslaughter if it appears, either from the evidence given on his behalf or from evidence given on the part of the prosecution — (a) that he was not in fact deprived of the power of self control by the provocation; • (b) that he acted wholly or partly from a previous purpose to cause death, or harm or to engage in an unlawful fight, whether or not he would have acted on that purpose at the time or in the manner in which he did act but for the provocation;

Sections 299-300... • (c) that, after the provocation was given and before he did the act which caused the harm, such a time elapsed or such circumstances occurred that a person of ordinary character might have recovered his self control; or (d) that his act was, in respect either of the instrument or means used or of the cruel or other manner in which it was used, greatly in excess of the measure in which a person of ordinary character would have been likely under the circumstances to be deprived of his self control by the provocation. • (2) Where a person, in the course of a fight, uses any deadly or dangerous means against an adversary who has not used or commenced to use any deadly or dangerous means against him, if it appears that the accused person purposed or prepared to use such means before he had received any such blow or hurt in the fight as might be a sufficient provocation to use means of that kind, he shall be presumed to have used the means from a previous purpose to cause death, notwithstanding that, before the actual use of the means, he may have received any such blow or hurt in the fight as might amount to extreme provocation. • Sections 302-314...

LIBEL • 315. (1) Whoever is convicted of negligent libel shall be liable to imprisonment for six months. (2) Whoever is convicted of intentional libel shall be liable to imprisonment for two years. • 316. A person is guilty of libel who, by print, writing, painting, effigy or by any means otherwise than solely by gestures, spoken words, or other sounds, unlawfully publishes any defamatory matter concerning another person, either negligently or with intent to defame that other person.

The Sexual Offences Act Chapter 99 The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2011 Definition of Rape • 3. Rape is the act of any person not under fourteen years of age having sexual intercourse with another person who is not his spouse — (a) without the consent of that other person; (b) without consent which has been extorted by threats or fear of bodily harm; (c) with consent obtained by personating the spouse of that other person; or (d) with consent obtained by false and fraudulent representations as to the nature and quality of the act.

The Sexual Offences Act Chapter 99 The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2011 Definition of Rape • 4. For the purposes of this Act, “sexual intercourse” includes — (a) sexual connection occasioned by any degree of penetration of the vagina of any person or anus of any person, or by the stimulation of the vulva of any person or anus of any person, by or with — (i) any part of the body of another person; or (ii) any object used by another person, except where the penetration or stimulation is carried out for proper medical purposes; and • (b) sexual connection occasioned by the introduction of any part of the penis of any person into the mouth of another person, and any reference in this Act to the act of having sexual intercourse includes a reference to any stage or continuation of that act.

Definition of Abduction 5. (1) A person is guilty of abduction of another person who, with intent to deprive any person entitled to the custody or control of that other person, of such custody or control, or with intent to cause that other person to be married to, or to co-habit or have sexual intercourse with, any person — • (a) unlawfully takes that other person from the lawful custody, care or charge of any person; or • (b) detains that other person from returning to the lawful custody, care or charge of any person.

Summary Sexual Offences- Voyeurism • 5A. (1) Any person who — (a) surreptitiously observes including by mechanical or electronic means; or (b) makes a visual recording of a person, in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy, commits an offence if — (i) the person is in a place which a person can reasonably be expected to be fully or partially nude, to expose his or her genital organs or other intimate parts or to be engaged in explicit sexual activity; (ii) the person is fully or partially nude, is exposing his or her genital organs or other intimate parts or is engaged in explicit sexual activity, and the observation or recording is done for the purpose of observing or recording a person in such a state or engaged in such an activity; or (iii) the observation or recording is done for a sexual purpose.

Summary Sexual Offences- Voyeurism • (2) For the purposes of this section, “visual recording” includes a photographic film or video recording made by any means. • (3) Any person who knowing that a recording was obtained by the commission of an offence under subsection (1) prints, copies, publishes, distributes, circulates, sells, advertises or makes available the recording or has the recording in his possession for the purpose of printing, copying, publishing, distributing, circulating, selling or advertising or making it available, commits an offence. • (4) Subsection (1) does not apply to a peace officer who is acting in the course of his duties.

• (5) A person who is guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a term of imprisonment of three years. • Sections 6-9 • 10. (1) Any person who has unlawful sexual intercourse with any person under fourteen years of age, whether with or without the consent of the person with whom he had unlawful sexual intercourse, is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for life subject to, on a first conviction for the offence, a term of imprisonment of seven years and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction for the offence, a term of imprisonment of fourteen years.

(2) Any person who attempts to have unlawful sexual intercourse with any person under fourteen years of age, whether with or without the consent of the person with whom he attempted to have unlawful sexual intercourse, is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for fourteen years subject to, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction for the offence, a term of imprisonment of eight years. • Section 11...

Unlawful Sexual Intercourse • 12. (1) Any person who has unlawful sexual intercourse with any person who is suffering from any mental disorder, whether with or without the consent of the person with whom he had unlawful sexual intercourse, under circumstances which prove that the accused person knew at the time of the commission of the offence that the person with whom he had unlawful sexual intercourse was a person suffering from a mental disorder, is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for life subject to, on a first conviction for the offence, a term of imprisonment of seven years and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction for the offence, a term of imprisonment of fourteen years.

Unlawful Sexual Intercourse (2) Any person who attempts to have unlawful sexual intercourse with any person who is suffering from any mental disorder, whether with or without the consent of the person with whom he attempted to have unlawful sexual intercourse, under circumstances which prove that the accused person knew at the time of the commission of the offence that the person with whom he attempted to have unlawful sexual intercourse was a person suffering from a mental disorder, is guilty of an offence ... • Sections 13-16...

Indecent Assault • 17. (1) Any person who — (a) indecently assaults any other person; (b) to a charge of an indecent assault committed on a person under fourteen does anything to any other person with the consent of that other person which, but for such consent, would be an indecent assault, such consent being obtained by false and fraudulent representation as to the nature and quality of the act, is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for eight years. 2) It is no defence n years of age, to prove that that person consented to the act of indecency. • Sections 18-25...

Sexual Harassment • 26. (1) Any person who — (a) being a prospective employer importunes or solicits sexual favours from another person — (i) in the terms or conditions on which he offers, to that person or any other person, employment or admission into any institution; or (ii) under a threat of rejection (whether implied or otherwise) of any application made by that person or any other person for employment or for admission into any institution, or of causing such rejection;

Sexual Harassment (b) being in a position of authority over, or

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Definition of Riot 78. (1) If three or more persons together in any public or private place commence or attempt to do any of the following things, namely — (a)to execute any common purpose with violence and without lawful authority to use such violence for that purpose; (b) (b) to execute a common purpose of obstructing or resisting the execution of any legal process or authority; (c) to facilitate, by force or by show of force or of numbers, the commission of any crime, they are guilty of a riot.

Unlawful Assemblies & Proclamation Definition of Riot • 79. (1) An unlawful assembly is an assembly of three or more persons who, with intent to carry out any common purpose, assemble in such a manner, or so conduct themselves when assembled, as to cause persons in the neighbourhood of such assembly to fear, on reasonable grounds, that the persons so assembled will disturb the peace tumultuously, or will, by such assembly, needlessly and without any reasonable occasion provoke other persons to disturb the peace tumultuously.

Unlawful Assemblies & Proclamation Definition of Riot (2) Persons lawfully assembled together may become an unlawful assembly if they conduct themselves, with a common purpose, in such a manner as would have made their assembling unlawful if they had assembled in that manner for that purpose. (3) An assembly of three or more persons for the purpose of protecting the house of any one of their number against persons threatening to break and enter such house in order to commit any crime therein is not unlawful.

Making of Proclamation for Rioters to Disperse 80. (1) Any magistrate or, in the absence of any magistrate, any justice of the peace or any commissioned officer in Her Majesty’s military or naval service in whose view a riot is being committed, or who apprehends that a riot is about to be committed by persons assembled within his view, may make or cause to be made a proclamation in the Queen’s name, commanding the rioters or persons so assembled to disperse peaceably. Sec 81...

Abetment & Conspiracy Definition of Abetment:- 86. (1) Whoever directly or indirectly, instigates, commands, counsels, procures, solicits or in any manner purposely aids, facilitates, encourages or promotes, whether by his act or presence or otherwise, and every person who does any act for the purpose of aiding, facilitating, encouraging or promoting the commission of an offence by any other person, whether known or unknown, certain or uncertain, is guilty of abetting that offence, and of abetting the other person in respect of that offence.

Abetment & Conspiracy • Sec 87-88 • Definition of Conspiracy 89 (1) If two or more persons agree or act together with a common purpose in committing or abetting an offence whether with or without any previous concert or deliberation, each of them is guilty of conspiracy to commit or abet that offence as the case may be. • Sections 90-96

Arrest without Warrant Section 104: (1) Any peace officer and all persons whom he shall call to his assistance may arrest and take persons into custody without a warrant in the following cases — (a) any person whom he finds committing an offence against the person or against property as to which it is provided under this Code that the offender may be punished by imprisonment;

Arrest without Warrant (b) any intoxicated or idle or disorderly person whom he finds in any way disturbing the peace, whether in a public or private place, and causing public annoyance, or guilty of any other offence against the law which may be an outrage of public decency or morality; (c) any person whom he finds during the night lying or loitering in any highway, yard or other place and whom he shall have good cause to suspect of having committed, or being about to commit, any offence against this Code;

Arrest without Warrant (d) any person whom any other person positively charges or states that he suspects of having committed any crime or the offence of stealing or obtaining goods by false pretences, or receiving stolen goods, or the offence of cruelty to or causing injury to an animal, if the charge or suspicion appears to the peace officer to be well founded and the informant is willing to accompany the peace officer and at the police station is willing to enter into recognisance conditioned to prosecute the charge; (e) any person whom any other person charges with having committed an aggravated assault, if the peace officer has good reason to believe that such an assault has been committed, although not within his view, and that by reason of its recent commission a warrant could not have been obtained for the apprehension of the person charged. Sections 105-106...

Justifiable Force & Harm 107. (1) For the prevention of, or for the defence of himself or any other person against, any crime, a person may justify the use of necessary force, not extending to a blow, wound or grievous harm. (2) For the prevention of, or for the defence of himself or any other person against, any criminal force or harm, a person may justify the use of necessary force, not extending to a wound or grievous harm.

Justifiable Force & Harm (3) For the prevention of, or for the defence of himself or any other person against, any felony, a person may justify the use of necessary force not extending to dangerous harm. (4) For the prevention of, or for the defence of himself or any other person against, any of the following crimes, a person may justify any necessary force or harm, extending, in the case of extreme necessity, even to killing, namely — (a) treason; (b) piracy; (c) murder; (d) manslaughter, except manslaughter by negligence; (e) robbery; (f) burglary; (g) house-breaking; (h) arson of a dwelling-house or vessel; (i) rape; (j) forcible unnatural crime; (k) dangerous or grievous harm.

Justifiable Force & Harm (5) For the suppression or dispersion of a riotous or unlawful assembly, force may be justified in the cases and subject to the conditions specified in this Code with respect to such assemblies. (6) No force used in an unlawful fight can be justified under any provision of this Code; and every fight is an unlawful fight in which a person engages, or which he maintains, otherwise than solely in pursuance of some of the matters of justification specified in this Title. Sections 108-113...

Causing Bodily harm, Wounding & Assaults etc. • Section 133... Indecent Assault •134. Whoever commits an indecent assault upon another person, whether male or female, shall be liable to imprisonment for six month. • Sections-135-136... Stealing Offence including Fraud & False Pretences 139. Whoever steals anything, the value of which does not in the opinion of the court exceed five hundred dollars, such stealing not being accompanied by housebreaking or burglary, nor amounting to robbery or extortion, shall be liable to imprisonment for three months.

Causing Bodily harm, Wounding & Assaults etc. 140. Whoever is convicted of — (1) any of the undermentioned offences, where the value of the property alleged to have been stolen or obtained does not in the opinion of the court exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, namely, any of the offences following — (a) stealing anything of which he had the custody, control or possession, or to which he had the means of access, by reason of any office, employment or service; (b) stealing from or in any dwelling-house, shop, manufactory, warehouse, dock, wharf or quay adjacent to any harbour or port of entry or discharge, or from, or in any vessel (not being a vessel in distress or wrecked, stranded or cast on shore);

Causing Bodily harm, Wounding & Assaults etc. (c) stealing from the person; (d) stealing any cattle; (e) committing a fraudulent breach of trust; or (2) any attempt to commit any of the offences herein referred to; (3) any abetment, or conspiracy for the commission of any of the said offences, shall, if the offender had not been previously convicted of a similar offence, be liable to imprisonment for three months, or to a fine of five hundred dollars, or to both. • Section 141-143...

Homicide Offences/Murder 289. Whoever causes the death of another person by any unlawful harm is guilty of manslaughter. If the harm was negligently caused, he is guilty only of manslaughter by negligence. 290. Whoever intentionally causes the death of another person by any unlawful harm is guilty of murder, unless his crime is reduced to manslaughter by reason of such extreme provocation, or other matter of partial excuse, as in this Title hereafter mentioned. Section 291-297...

Homicide Offences/Murder 298. (1) Where a woman by any willful act or omission causes the death of her child, being a child under the age of twelve months, but at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child, then, notwithstanding that the circumstances were such that but for this section the offence would have amounted to murder, she shall be guilty of felony, to wit, of infanticide, and may for such offence be dealt with and punished as if she had been guilty of the offence of manslaughter of the child.

• Homicide Offences/Murder • 289. Whoever causes the death of another person by any unlawful harm is guilty of manslaughter. If the harm was negligently caused, he is guilty only of manslaughter by negligence. • 290. Whoever intentionally causes the death of another person by any unlawful harm is guilty of murder, unless his crime is reduced to manslaughter by reason of such extreme provocation, or other matter of partial excuse, as in this Title hereafter mentioned.

Homicide Offences/Murder • Section 291-297... • 298. (1) Where a woman by any willful act or omission causes the death of her child, being a child under the age of twelve months, but at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child, then, notwithstanding that the circumstances were such that but for this section the offence would have amounted to murder, she shall be guilty of felony, to wit, of infanticide, and may for such offence be dealt with and punished as if she had been guilty of the offence of manslaughter of the child.

Sections 299-300... • 301. (1) Notwithstanding proof on behalf of the accused person of such matter of extreme provocation as in section 300 is mentioned, his crime shall not be deemed to be thereby reduced to manslaughter if it appears, either from the evidence given on his behalf or from evidence given on the part of the prosecution — (a) that he was not in fact deprived of the power of self control by the provocation; • (b) that he acted wholly or partly from a previous purpose to cause death, or harm or to engage in an unlawful fight, whether or not he would have acted on that purpose at the time or in the manner in which he did act but for the provocation;

Sections 299-300... • (c) that, after the provocation was given and before he did the act which caused the harm, such a time elapsed or such circumstances occurred that a person of ordinary character might have recovered his self control; or (d) that his act was, in respect either of the instrument or means used or of the cruel or other manner in which it was used, greatly in excess of the measure in which a person of ordinary character would have been likely under the circumstances to be deprived of his self control by the provocation. • (2) Where a person, in the course of a fight, uses any deadly or dangerous means against an adversary who has not used or commenced to use any deadly or dangerous means against him, if it appears that the accused person purposed or prepared to use such means before he had received any such blow or hurt in the fight as might be a sufficient provocation to use means of that kind, he shall be presumed to have used the means from a previous purpose to cause death, notwithstanding that, before the actual use of the means, he may have received any such blow or hurt in the fight as might amount to extreme provocation. • Sections 302-314...

LIBEL • 315. (1) Whoever is convicted of negligent libel shall be liable to imprisonment for six months. (2) Whoever is convicted of intentional libel shall be liable to imprisonment for two years. • 316. A person is guilty of libel who, by print, writing, painting, effigy or by any means otherwise than solely by gestures, spoken words, or other sounds, unlawfully publishes any defamatory matter concerning another person, either negligently or with intent to defame that other person.

The Sexual Offences Act Chapter 99 The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2011 Definition of Rape • 3. Rape is the act of any person not under fourteen years of age having sexual intercourse with another person who is not his spouse — (a) without the consent of that other person; (b) without consent which has been extorted by threats or fear of bodily harm; (c) with consent obtained by personating the spouse of that other person; or (d) with consent obtained by false and fraudulent representations as to the nature and quality of the act.

The Sexual Offences Act Chapter 99 The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2011 Definition of Rape • 4. For the purposes of this Act, “sexual intercourse” includes — (a) sexual connection occasioned by any degree of penetration of the vagina of any person or anus of any person, or by the stimulation of the vulva of any person or anus of any person, by or with — (i) any part of the body of another person; or (ii) any object used by another person, except where the penetration or stimulation is carried out for proper medical purposes; and • (b) sexual connection occasioned by the introduction of any part of the penis of any person into the mouth of another person, and any reference in this Act to the act of having sexual intercourse includes a reference to any stage or continuation of that act.

Definition of Abduction 5. (1) A person is guilty of abduction of another person who, with intent to deprive any person entitled to the custody or control of that other person, of such custody or control, or with intent to cause that other person to be married to, or to co-habit or have sexual intercourse with, any person — • (a) unlawfully takes that other person from the lawful custody, care or charge of any person; or • (b) detains that other person from returning to the lawful custody, care or charge of any person.

Summary Sexual Offences- Voyeurism • 5A. (1) Any person who — (a) surreptitiously observes including by mechanical or electronic means; or (b) makes a visual recording of a person, in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy, commits an offence if — (i) the person is in a place which a person can reasonably be expected to be fully or partially nude, to expose his or her genital organs or other intimate parts or to be engaged in explicit sexual activity; (ii) the person is fully or partially nude, is exposing his or her genital organs or other intimate parts or is engaged in explicit sexual activity, and the observation or recording is done for the purpose of observing or recording a person in such a state or engaged in such an activity; or (iii) the observation or recording is done for a sexual purpose.

Summary Sexual Offences- Voyeurism • (2) For the purposes of this section, “visual recording” includes a photographic film or video recording made by any means. • (3) Any person who knowing that a recording was obtained by the commission of an offence under subsection (1) prints, copies, publishes, distributes, circulates, sells, advertises or makes available the recording or has the recording in his possession for the purpose of printing, copying, publishing, distributing, circulating, selling or advertising or making it available, commits an offence. • (4) Subsection (1) does not apply to a peace officer who is acting in the course of his duties.

• (5) A person who is guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a term of imprisonment of three years. • Sections 6-9 • 10. (1) Any person who has unlawful sexual intercourse with any person under fourteen years of age, whether with or without the consent of the person with whom he had unlawful sexual intercourse, is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for life subject to, on a first conviction for the offence, a term of imprisonment of seven years and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction for the offence, a term of imprisonment of fourteen years.

(2) Any person who attempts to have unlawful sexual intercourse with any person under fourteen years of age, whether with or without the consent of the person with whom he attempted to have unlawful sexual intercourse, is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for fourteen years subject to, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction for the offence, a term of imprisonment of eight years. • Section 11...

Unlawful Sexual Intercourse • 12. (1) Any person who has unlawful sexual intercourse with any person who is suffering from any mental disorder, whether with or without the consent of the person with whom he had unlawful sexual intercourse, under circumstances which prove that the accused person knew at the time of the commission of the offence that the person with whom he had unlawful sexual intercourse was a person suffering from a mental disorder, is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for life subject to, on a first conviction for the offence, a term of imprisonment of seven years and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction for the offence, a term of imprisonment of fourteen years.

Unlawful Sexual Intercourse (2) Any person who attempts to have unlawful sexual intercourse with any person who is suffering from any mental disorder, whether with or without the consent of the person with whom he attempted to have unlawful sexual intercourse, under circumstances which prove that the accused person knew at the time of the commission of the offence that the person with whom he attempted to have unlawful sexual intercourse was a person suffering from a mental disorder, is guilty of an offence ... • Sections 13-16...

Indecent Assault • 17. (1) Any person who — (a) indecently assaults any other person; (b) to a charge of an indecent assault committed on a person under fourteen does anything to any other person with the consent of that other person which, but for such consent, would be an indecent assault, such consent being obtained by false and fraudulent representation as to the nature and quality of the act, is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for eight years. 2) It is no defence n years of age, to prove that that person consented to the act of indecency. • Sections 18-25...

Sexual Harassment • 26. (1) Any person who — (a) being a prospective employer importunes or solicits sexual favours from another person — (i) in the terms or conditions on which he offers, to that person or any other person, employment or admission into any institution; or (ii) under a threat of rejection (whether implied or otherwise) of any application made by that person or any other person for employment or for admission into any institution, or of causing such rejection;

Sexual Harassment (b) being in a position of authority over, or