New Offences

Question 1

Indecent Exposure

Answer 1

In or Within View - Public Place and act done in a private place which can be seen by a person in a public place.

Public Place

Intentionally - The act of exposure … Deliberate or voluntarily and not accidental.

Obscenely - Offends contemporary standards of propriety, to the extent that a reasonable observer would regard it with “loathing, disgust and revulsion”. Consideration must be given to time, place and circumstances.

Exposes any part of his or her genitals

Question 2

Indecent Act in a Public Place

Answer 2

Wilfully does - Deliberate or voluntarily and not accidental

Any indecent act - sexually explicit

In any place to which the public have or are permitted to have access OR within view of any such place

Question 3

Indecent Act with Intent to Insult or Offend

Answer 3

With intent to insult or offend - Done deliberately, on purpose aiming to cause offence and outrage

Does any indecent act

In any place - Includes private and public place

Question 4

Indecent Assault

Answer 4

Indecently Assaults

Another person

Question 5

Sexual Violation by Rape

Answer 5

A person who rapes another person - Effected by the penetration of genitalia by penis.

• Without consent to connection
• Without believing on reasonable grounds consented to the connection

Question 6

Sexual Violation by Unlawful Sexual Connection

Answer 6

Any person having unlawful sexual connection with another person - Without consent and believing on reasonable grounds.

Sexual Connection:

Introduction into the genitalia or the anus of one person, otherwise than for genuine medical purposes.

• any part of the body of another person
• an object held or manipulated by another person
• connection between the mouth or tongue of one person and a part of another person’s genitalia or anus
• continuation of connection of a kind described above