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Singapore
Male/Male Illegal Female/Female Legal
Penal Code (Chapter 22), Revised Edition 2007 214
Outrages on decency.
Section 377A. “Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or abets the commission of, or procures or
attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male
person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years.”
Section 377 criminalising “carnal knowledge against the order of nature” has been repealed by the Penal
Code (Amendment) Act 2007, No. 51, which came into force on 1 February 2008.
Sri Lanka
Male/Male Illegal Female/Female Illegal
Penal Code of 1883 No 2 (Cap. 19) 215
Article 365 – “Voluntarily carnal intercourse with man, woman or animal against the order of nature -
imprisonment for a term which may extend ten years.”
Article 365A (as introduced by the “Penal Code (Amendment) Act, No. 22 of 1995”) 216
“Any person who, in public or private, commits, or is a party to the commission of, or procures or attempts to
procure the commission by any person of any act of gross indecency with another person, shall be guilty of
an offence and shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two
years or with a fine, or with both and where the offence is committed by a person over eighteen (18) years of
age in respect of any person under sixteen (16) years of age shall be punished worth rigorous imprisonment
for a term not less than 10 years and not exceeding 20 years and with a fine and shall also be ordered to pay
compensation of amount determined by court to the person in respect of whom the offence was committed
for the injuries caused to such a person.”
Syria
Male/Male Illegal Female/Female Illegal
Penal Code of 1949 217
Article 520. “Any unnatural sexual intercourse shall be punished with a term of imprisonment of up to three
years.”
214 Text of the law is available at: http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_retrieve.pl?actno=REVED-224.
215 Available at: http://www.idpsrilanka.lk/html/Children/Domestic/1883%20No%202%20Penal%20code.pdf.
216 See Sri Lanka section on Sexual Offences Laws, Interpol.
https://www.interpol.int/Public/Children/SexualAbuse/NationalLaws/
217 German Bundestag. Printed Paper 16/3597, p. 27.
http://www.volkerbeck.de/cms/files/16_3597_minor_interpellation.pdf
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