BOOK I
General Provisions

PART III
Punishments

TITLE VIII
General and Special Cases

70. Different kinds of punishment

(2) imprisonment, including detention in an Industrial School as defined in section 3 of this Ordinance;

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART VII
Offences against the Person and Reputation

TITLE XVI
Assault and Similar Offences

Rape and Similar Offences

177. Rape

Whoever commits rape shall be liable to imprisonment for fifteen years.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART VII
Offences against the Person and Reputation

TITLE XVIII
Criminal Homicide and Similar Offences


230. Murder

Whoever commits murder shall be liable to suffer death:

Provided that sentence of death shall not be pronounced on or recorded against a person convicted of murder if it appears to the Court that at the time when the offence was committed he or she was under the age of eighteen years; but, in lieu of such punishment, the Court shall sentence the juvenile offender to be detained during Her Majesty’s pleasure, and, if so sentenced, he or she shall, notwithstanding anything in the other provisions of this Code or the provisions of any other Law or Act, be liable to be detained in such place and under such conditions as the Governor-General may direct, and whilst so detained shall be deemed to be in legal custody.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART IX
Offences against Public Order, Health and Morality

TITLE XXVI
Perjury and Obstructions of Public Justice

Perjury and Similar Offences

359. Perjury

Whoever commits perjury shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.

360. Perjury on trial for capital crime

Whoever commits perjury with intent to cause the conviction of any person for any crime punishable with death, shall be liable to imprisonment for fifteen years.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART IX
Offences against Public Order, Health and Morality

TITLE XXVI
Perjury and Obstructions of Public Justice

362. Destruction, etc., of public register, etc.

Whoever intentionally and unlawfully falsifies, destroys, injures, removes or conceals any public register of marriages, births, baptisms, deaths or burials, or any other public register or record, or any will or any document of title to land, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART IX
Offences against Public Order, Health and Morality

TITLE XXVI
Perjury and Obstructions of Public Justice

363. Removal, etc., of document used in judicial proceeding

Whoever unlawfully, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, removes, conceals, injures or alters any instrument or document used or intended to be used in any judicial proceeding, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART IX
Offences against Public Order, Health and Morality

TITLE XXVI
Perjury and Obstructions of Public Justice

373. Disturbance of Court

Whoever with force, threats or tumult, hinders, interrupts or disturbs the proceeding of any Court, or wilfully and unlawfully, with force, threats or tumult, hinders any person from entering or quitting any Court, or removes him or her therefrom, or detains him or her therein, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

[See section 131(b).]

374. Insulting Court

Whoever in the presence of any Court is guilty of contempt of the Court by any insulting, opprobrious or menacing acts or words, is guilty of a misdemeanour.