Part 7Miscellaneous and general

Miscellaneous

I152Common law offences

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.