{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:307","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Rape","number":"307","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/307/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK III — OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON, PUBLIC DECENCY AND THE FAMILY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 3. — Sexual Offences"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"A person who commits a sexual assault against another person by any act that involves the penetration of the body of the person assaulted,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/307/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":219,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/219/?article=307&paragraph=p1#article-307-p1"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is guilty of rape, a Class 6 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 7 years and not more than 10 years.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/307/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":219,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/219/?article=307&paragraph=p1-tail#article-307-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Rape between spouses is punishable only where the spouses are not living together in the same household under circumstances which do not show a mutual agreement or understanding between the spouses not to live together in the same household temporarily.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/307/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":219,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/219/?article=307&paragraph=p2#article-307-p2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}