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Indecent assault. See (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 52, where by such an assult on a female is an indictable offence, punishable by imprisonment with or with-out hard labour up to two years; and s. 62, whereby such an assault on a male is punishable by penal servitude up to ten years, or imprisonment: consent of either girl or boy under sixteen being by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 56), no defence.