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Section 133: Knowledge of victim's age irrelevant in age-based offences

133.Knowledge of age of female immaterial

Except as otherwise expressly stated, it is immaterial in the case of any of the offences committed with respect to a woman or girl under a specified age that the accused person did not know that the woman or girl was under that age, or believed that she was not under that age.

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A person accused of a sexual or other offence against a minor cannot use ignorance of the victim's age as a defence. It does not matter whether you kn...

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