A History of Canadian Sexual Assault Legislation
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Seduction of Female Between Sixteen and Eighteen

An Act to amend the Criminal Code, S.C. 1919-1920, c. 43, s. 4.

[Seduction of girls between 16 and 18 instead of 14 and 16.]
211. Every one over the age of eighteen years is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to two years' imprisonment who seduces any girl of previously chaste character of or above the age of sixteen years and under the age of eighteen years. Proof that a girl has on previous occasions had illicit connection with the accused shall not be deemed to be evidence that she was not of previously chaste character.


Criminal Code, S.C. 1953-54, c. 51, s. 143.

[Seduction of female between sixteen and eighteen.]
143. Every male person who, being eighteen years of age or more, seduces a female person of previously chaste character who is sixteen years or more but less than eighteen years of age is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for two years.


Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1970, c. C-34, s. 151.

[Seduction of female between sixteen and eighteen]
151. Every male person who, being eighteen years of age or more, seduces a female person of previously chaste character who is sixteen years or more but less than eighteen years of age is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for two years. 1953-54, c. 51, s. 143.


Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46, s. 156.

[Seduction of female between sixteen and eighteen]
156. Every male person who, being eighteen years of age or more, seduces a female person of previously chaste character who is sixteen years or more but less than eighteen years of age is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. R.S., c. C-34, s. 151.


An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canada Evidence Act, R.S.C. 1985 (3d Supp.), c. 19, s. 2.

[Repealed. Statute came into force in 1987.]