Part 7Miscellaneous and general

Miscellaneous

52Common 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.