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122 No. 30599
Government Gazette, 14 December 2007

Act No. 32, 2007
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007
No. and year of law Short title Extent of repeal or amendment

such fine and such imprisonment."; and

(b)

by the addition after subsection (2) of the following subsection:

(3) The provisions of section 300 are applicable, with the changes required by the context, upon the conviction of a person in terms of subsection (2) and if the person whose identity has been revealed suffered any physical, psychological or other injury or loss of income or support.”.


21. The amendment of section 335B by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:

“(1) If a police official charged with the investigation of a case is of the opinion that it is necessary that a minor or a person who is mentally disabled in respect of whom it is alleged that [an offence of an indecent or violent nature] a sexual offence as contemplated in section 1 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007, or an offence of a violent nature has been committed be examined by a district surgeon or, if he is not available, by a registered medical practitioner, but that the parent or guardian or curator or custodian of such minor or mentally disabled person

(a)

cannot be traced within a reasonable time;

(b)

cannot grant consent in time;

(c)

is a suspect in respect of the offence in consequence of which the examination must be conducted;

(d)

unreasonably refuses to consent that the examination be conducted;

(e)

is incompetent on account of mental disorder to consent that the examination be conducted; or

(f)

is deceased,

a magistrate may, on the written application of that police official and if he is satisfied that the medical examination is necessary, grant the necessary consent that such examination be conducted.”.


22. The substitution for Schedule 1 of the following Schedule:

Schedule 1
(Sections 40 and 42)

Treason.