Section-6
definitions in the code to be understood subject to exception
Throughout this code every definition of an offence, every penal provisions and every illustration of every such definition or penal provisions, shall be understood subject to the exceptions contend in the chapter entiteld "General Exceptions", though those exceptions are not repeated in such definition, penal provisions, or illustration.
Illustrations
(a) The section, 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 done by child under seven years of age.
(b) A a police-officer, without Warren, 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 bounded by law to do it".
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