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Section 376A — Incest

As in force on 15 May 1998.

Timeline 7 versions
  1. 30 March 1987 Enacted
  2. 15 May 1998 You are here
  3. 1 February 2008 Act 51 of 2007
  4. 30 November 2008 Revised edition
  5. 1 January 2020 Act 15 of 2019
  6. 31 December 2021 Revised edition
  7. 1 March 2022 Act 23 of 2021
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376A.Incest

(a)Any man who has carnal knowledge of a woman with or without her consent who is to his knowledge his grand-daughter, daughter, sister, half-sister or mother (whether such relationship is or is not traced through lawful wedlock); or

(b)any woman of or above the age of 16 who with consent permits her grandfather, father, brother, half-brother or son (whether such relationship is or is not traced through lawful wedlock) to have carnal knowledge of her (knowing him to be her grandfather, father, brother, half-brother or son, as the case may be),

is said to commit “incest”.