PPC § 6 — Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions

Statutory text (English)

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 those exceptions are not repeated in such definition, penal
provision or illustration.
4, for "British India".
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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Source citation: PPC (Act XLV of 1860) s.6: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE PAKISTAN PENAL CODE' (Act No. XLV of 1860), p. 31, 32, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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