Last Change:

04/23/2025

Criminal Law (Amendment) (Offense of Rape) Act, 2016

Year: 2016

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Liberty & security of person

Description

An Act further to amend the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1989 and the Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984.

Selected provisions
Section 2 - Amendment of section 55, Act XLV of 1860.

In the Pakistan Penal Code 1860 (Act XLV of 1860), hereinafter referred to as the Penal Code, in section 55, in the proviso, for full stop at the end a colon shall be substituted and thereafler the following second proviso shall be added, namely:
"Provided further that in a case in which the sentence of imprisonment for life has been passed against an offender convicted for an offence punishable under sections 354A, 376, 376A, 377 or 377B, or where the principle of fasad-fil-arz is attracted, such punishment shall not be commuted."