Sexual Offences against Children 17 Non-application of sections 173a, 293 and 294 of the Criminal Procedure Code 24. Sections 173a, 293 and 294 of the Criminal Procedure Code shall not apply in respect of any offence under this Act, or any offence specified in the Schedule where the victim is a child, if the person convicted of such offence is of or above the age of eighteen years. Provision regarding whipping 25. Notwithstanding paragraph 289(c) of the Criminal Procedure Code, if a person convicted of any offence under this Act is a male whom the court considers to be more than fifty years of age, he may still be punishable with whipping. Rehabilitative counselling 26. (1) The court may, in addition to any punishment imposed for any offence under this Act, or any offence specified in the Schedule where the victim is a child, order period of rehabilitative counselling on the person convicted of such offence within the period of his detention. (2) The rehabilitative counselling ordered under subsection (1) shall be under the Minister charged with the responsibility for prison. Police supervision 27. (1) Notwithstanding subsection 295(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code, whether or not he has previously been convicted of any offence, when a person is convicted of any offence under this Act, or of any offence specified in the Schedule where the victim is a child, the court shall direct that he be subject to the supervision of the police for a period of not less than one year and not more than three years commencing immediately after the expiration of the sentence passed on him. (2) When any person subject to the supervision of the police under subsection (1) is, while still subject to such supervision, sentenced to a term of imprisonment within Malaysia, any term spent in prison shall be excluded from the period of supervision.