Crimes Ordinance
Part XII
12-20
Section 121
Cap. 200
(3) (Repealed 43 of 2000 s. 3)
(Added 1 of 1978 s. 6)
[cf. 1956 c. 69 s. 3 U.K.]
121.
Administering drugs to obtain or facilitate unlawful sexual act
(1) A person who applies or administers to, or causes to be taken
by, another person any drug, matter or thing with intent to
stupefy or overpower that other person so as thereby to enable
anyone to do an unlawful sexual act with that other person
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction
on indictment to imprisonment for 14 years. (Amended 90 of
1991 s. 6)
(2) (Repealed 43 of 2000 s. 3)
(Added 1 of 1978 s. 6)
[cf. 1956 c. 69 s. 4 U.K.]
122.
Indecent assault
(1) Subject to subsection (3), a person who indecently assaults
another person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 10 years.
(2) A person under the age of 16 cannot in law give any consent
which would prevent an act being an assault for the purposes
of this section.
(3) A person is not, by virtue of subsection (2), guilty of
indecently assaulting another person, if that person is, or
believes on reasonable grounds that he or she is, married to
that other person. (Replaced 90 of 1991 s. 7)
(4) A woman who is a mentally incapacitated person cannot in
law give any consent which would prevent an act being an
assault for the purposes of this section, but a person is only
to be treated as guilty of indecently assaulting a mentally
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