Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007 (Act No. 32 of 2007)

Chapter 7 : General Provisions

Part 4: National instructions and directives, regulations and repeal and amendment of laws

68. Repeal and amendment of laws

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(1)        The common law relating to the—

(a)irrebuttable presumption that a female person under the age of 12 years is incapable of consenting to sexual intercourse; and
(b)crimes of rape, indecent assault, incest, bestiality and violation of a corpse, insofar as it relates to the commission of a sexual act with a corpse,

is hereby repealed.

 

(2)The laws specified in the  indicated in the third column of that Schedule.