6. Definitions in
the Code to be understood subject to exceptions.- Throughout
this Code every definition of an offence, every penal provision,
and every illustration of every such definition or penal provision,
shall be understood subject to the exceptions contained in
the Chapter entitled "General Exceptions", though
these exceptions are not repeated in such definition, penal
provision, or illustration.
Illustrations
(a) The sections, in this Code, which contain definitions
of offences, do not express that a child under seven years
of age cannot commit such offences, but the definitions are
to be understood subject to the general exception which provides
that nothing shall be an offence which is done by a child
under seven years of age.
(b) A, a police-officer, without warrant, apprehends Z, who
has committed murder. Here A is not guilty of the offence
of wrongful confinement for he was bound by law to apprehend
Z and therefore the case falls within the general exception
which provides that "nothing is an offence which is done
by a person who is bound by law to do it".
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