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Whoever compels a person of the same or opposite sex to submit to sexual intercourse with him by force or threat of imminent attack on life or limb shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one and not more than ten years.
ObservationsSpecial circumstances of rape (in the same legal provision):
- If the offence under the preceding paragraph has been committed in a cruelor extremely humiliating manner or successively by several perpetrators or against offenders serving sentence or other persons whose personal freedom was taken away, the perpetrator(s) shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than three and not more than fifteen years.
- Whoever compels a person of the same or opposite sex to submit to sexualintercourse by threatening him/her with large loss of property to him/her or to his/herrelatives or with the disclosure of any matter concerning him/her or his/her relatives which is capable of damaging his/her or his/her relatives' honour and reputation shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than six months and not more than five years.
- If offences under paragraphs 1 or 3 of this Article have been committed against a spouse or an extra-marital partner or partner of a registered same-sex civil partnership, the prosecution shall be initiated upon a complaint.
Legal SourceCriminal Code, Article 170
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When the sexual assault consists of vaginal, anal or oral penetration, or inserting body parts or objects into either of the former two orifices, the offender shall be convicted of rape with a sentence of imprisonment from six to twelve years.
Legal SourceCriminal Code, Article 179
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When someone, by assault or otherwise with violence or by the threat of a criminal act, compels a person to have sexual intercourse or a comparable sexual act.
ObservationsRape may also be committed when the victim has not been compelled, but the perpetrator has improperly exploited the fact that a person is in a helpless state, owing to, for instance, unconsciousness, sleep, intoxication or other influence of drugs, illness, bodily injury or mental impairment.
Legal SourceCriminal Code, Chapter 6, Section 1.
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Person A commits an offence if (a) he intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus or mouth of another person B with his penis, (b) B does not consent to the penetration, and (c) A does not reasonably believe that B consents.
ObservationsIn Scotland, the legal provision for rape can be found in the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009.
Legal SourceSexual Offences Act 2003, Section 1.
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