South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts (1) A person (the
"offender") is guilty of the offence of rape if he or she engages, or
continues to engage, in sexual intercourse with another person who—
(a) does
not consent to engaging in the sexual intercourse; or
(b) has
withdrawn consent to the sexual intercourse,
and the offender knows, or is recklessly indifferent to, the fact that the
other person does not so consent or has so withdrawn consent (as the case may
be).
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for life.
(2) A person (the
"offender") is guilty of the offence of rape if he or she compels a person to
engage, or to continue to engage, in—
(a)
sexual intercourse with a person other than the offender; or
(b) an
act of sexual self-penetration; or
(c) an
act of bestiality,
when the person so compelled does not consent to engaging in the sexual
intercourse or act, or has withdrawn consent to the sexual intercourse or act,
and the offender knows, or is recklessly indifferent to, the fact that the
person does not so consent or has so withdrawn consent (as the case may be).
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for life.
(3) In this
section—
"compels"—a person compels another person if he or she controls or
influences the other person's conduct by means that effectively prevent the
other person from exercising freedom of choice;
"sexual self-penetration" means the penetration by a person of the person's
vagina, labia majora or anus by any part of the body of the person or by any
object.