Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act, 1990

Amendment of section 1 of Principal Act.

12.Section 1 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):

“(1) In this Act—

‘aggravated sexual assault’, ‘rape under section 4 ’ and ‘sexual assault’ have the meanings respectively assigned to them by the Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act, 1990;

‘complainant’ means a person in relation to whom a sexual assault offence is alleged to have been committed;

‘a rape offence’ means any of the following, namely, rape, attempted rape, burglary with intent to commit rape, aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring rape, attempted rape or burglary with intent to commit rape, and incitement to rape and, other than in sections 2 (2) and 8 of this Act, rape under section 4 , attempted rape under section 4 , aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring rape under section 4 or attempted rape under section 4 and incitement to rape under section 4 ;

‘a sexual assault offence’ means a rape offence and any of the following, namely, aggravated sexual assault, attempted aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, attempted sexual assault, aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring aggravated sexual assault, attempted aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault or attempted sexual assault, incitement to aggravated sexual assault or sexual assault and conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing offences.”.