Section 52 Common law offencesI1

For all purposes not relating to offences committed before the coming into force of this section—

(a)

the common law offences of—

(i)

rape,

(ii)

clandestine injury to women,

(iii)

lewd, indecent or libidinous practice or behaviour, and

(iv)

sodomy,

are abolished, and

(b)

without prejudice to paragraph (a), in so far as the provisions of this Act regulate any conduct they replace any rule of law regulating that conduct.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: S. 52 in force at 16.12.2013 by S.S.I. 2013/341, art. 2(a)