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Penal Code 1871 Chapter 16 — Offences affecting the human body

s 299–s 377D · 120 sections

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s 299Culpable homicides 300Murders 301Culpable homicide by causing the death of a person other than the person whose death was intendeds 302Punishment for murders 304Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murders 304ACausing death by rash or negligent acts 304BCausing death of child below 14 years of age, domestic worker or vulnerable person by sustained abuses 304CCausing or allowing death of child below 14 years of age, domestic worker or vulnerable person in same households 305Abetment of suicide or attempted suicide of minor or person who lacks mental capacitys 306Abetment of suicide or attempted suicides 307Attempt to murders 308Attempt to commit culpable homicides 308ACausing death in furtherance of group’s objects 308BConcealment, desecration or disposal of corpse that impedes discovery, identification, criminal investigations or prosecutionss 310Infanticides 311Punishment for infanticides 312Causing miscarriages 313Causing miscarriage without woman’s consents 314Death caused by act done with intent to cause miscarriages 315Child destruction before, at or immediately after births 316Causing death of a quick unborn child by an act amounting to culpable homicides 317Exposure and abandonment of a child below 12 years of age by parent or person having care of its 318Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead bodys 319Hurts 320Grievous hurts 321Voluntarily causing hurts 322Voluntarily causing grievous hurts 323Punishment for voluntarily causing hurts 323APunishment for voluntarily causing hurt which causes grievous hurts 324Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or meanss 325Punishment for voluntarily causing grievous hurts 326Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or meanss 327Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property or to constrain to an illegal acts 328Causing hurt by means of poison, etc., with intent to commit an offences 329Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal acts 330Voluntarily causing hurt to extort confession or to compel restoration of propertys 331Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort confession or to compel restoration of propertys 332Voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his dutys 333Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter public servant from his dutys 334Voluntarily causing hurt on provocations 334APunishment for voluntarily causing hurt on provocation which causes grievous hurts 335Causing grievous hurt on provocations 335AAllowing neglect, physical or sexual abuse of domestic worker or vulnerable persons 335BPunishment for act which endangers life or personal safety of others with knowledge or belief that it is likely to cause deaths 336Punishment for act which endangers life or the personal safety of otherss 337Causing hurt by an act which endangers life or the personal safety of otherss 338Causing grievous hurt by an act which endangers life or the personal safety of otherss 339Wrongful restraints 340Wrongful confinements 341Punishment for wrongful restraints 342Punishment for wrongful confinements 345Wrongful confinement of person for whose liberation a writ has been issueds 346Wrongful confinement in secrets 347Wrongful confinement for the purpose of extorting property or constraining to an illegal acts 348Wrongful confinement for the purpose of extorting confession or of compelling restoration of propertys 349Forces 350Criminal forces 351Assaults 352Punishment for using criminal force otherwise than on grave and sudden provocations 353Using criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his dutys 354Assault or use of criminal force to a person with intent to outrage modestys 354AOutraging modesty in certain circumstancess 355Assault or criminal force with intent to dishonour otherwise than on grave and sudden provocations 356Assault or criminal force in committing or attempting to commit theft of property carried by a persons 357Assault or criminal force in attempting wrongfully to confine a persons 358Assaulting or using criminal force on grave and sudden provocations 359Kidnappings 360Kidnapping from Singapores 361Kidnapping from lawful guardianships 362Abductions 363Punishment for kidnappings 363APunishment for abductions 364Kidnapping or abducting in order to murders 365Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine a persons 366Kidnapping or abducting a woman to compel her marriage, etc.s 367Kidnapping or abducting in order to subject a person to grievous hurt, slavery, etc.s 368Wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement a kidnapped persons 370Buying or disposing of any person as a slaves 371Habitual dealing in slavess 372Selling minor for purposes of prostitution, etc.s 373Buying minor for purposes of prostitution, etc.s 373AImporting woman for purposes of prostitution, etc.s 374Unlawful compulsory labours 375Rapes 376Sexual assault involving penetrations 376ASexual penetration of minor below 16 years of ages 376AAExploitative sexual penetration of minor of or above 16 but below 18 years of ages 376BCommercial sex with minor below 18 years of ages 376CCommercial sex with minor below 18 years of age outside Singapores 376DTour outside Singapore for commercial sex with minor below 18 years of ages 376ESexual grooming of minor below 16 years of ages 376EAExploitative sexual grooming of minor of or above 16 but below 18 years of ages 376EBSexual communication with minor below 16 years of ages 376ECExploitative sexual communication with minor of or above 16 but below 18 years of ages 376EDSexual activity or image in presence of minor below 16 years of ages 376EEExploitative sexual activity or image in presence of minor of or above 16 but below 18 years of ages 376FProcurement of sexual activity with person with mental disabilitys 376GIncests 376HProcurement of sexual activity by deception or false representations 377Sexual penetration, etc., of a corpses 377BSexual penetration with living animals 377BAWord or gesture intended to insult modesty of any persons 377BBVoyeurisms 377BCDistribution of voyeuristic image or recordings 377BDPossession of or gaining access to voyeuristic or intimate image or recording and production of intimate image or recordings 377BEDistributing or threatening to distribute intimate image or recordings 377BFSexual exposures 377BGUsing or involving child in production of child abuse materials 377BHProducing child abuse materials 377BIDistributing or selling child abuse materials 377BJAdvertising or seeking child abuse materials 377BKPossession of or gaining access to child abuse materials 377BLExploitation by abusive material of minor of or above 16 but below 18 years of ages 377BMDefences to offences relating to intimate image or recording and voyeurisms 377BNDefences to child abuse material offencess 377BOChild abuse material offences outside or partially outside Singapores 377CInterpretation of sections 375 to 377BO (sexual offences)s 377CAMeaning of exploitative relationships 377CBConsent given under misconception in sexual offencess 377DMistake as to age in sexual offences
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