IPC Section 6 - Definitions in the Code to be und erstood subject to exceptions

6. Definitions in the Code to be und erstood subject to exceptions. 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.

Illustration s

(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 of fences; 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 m urder. 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".