Sierra Leone - 2019 - Justice

The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act, 2019

Ministry of Justice, Sierra Leone

This is an Act to amend the Sexual Offences Act, 2012, to make provision for the increase of the maximum penalty for rape and sexual penetration of a child from fifteen years to life imprisonment; to make provision for the introduction of the offence of aggravated sexual assault; to make provision for an alternative conviction of aggravated sexual assault; to make provision for the prosecution of offences under the Act; and for other connected matters.

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October 2024

This is an Act to amend the Sexual Offences Act, 2012, to make provision for the increase of the maximum penalty for rape and sexual penetration of a child from fifteen years to life imprisonment; to make provision for the introduction of the offence of aggravated sexual assault; to make provision for an alternative conviction of aggravated sexual assault; to make provision for the prosecution of offences under the Act; and for other connected matters.

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