Indian Penal Code : Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions. Indian Bare Acts :

Indian Penal Code,1860

Act No : 45

Section : Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions.

6. Definitions in the Code to be understood subject toexceptions.--Throughout this Code every definition of an offence,every penal provision and every illustration of every such definitionor penal provision, shall be understood subject to the exceptionscontained in the Chapter entitled "General Exceptions", though thoseexceptions are not repeated in such definition, penal provision, orillustration. Illustrations (a) The sections, in this Code, which contain definitions ofoffences, do not express that a child under seven years of age cannotcommit such offences; but the definitions are to be understood subjectto the general exception which provides that nothing shall be anoffence which done by child under seven years of age. (b) A, a police-officer, without warrant, apprehends Z who hascommitted murder. Here A is not guilty of the offence of wrongfulconfinement; for he was bound by law to apprehend Z, and therefore thecase falls within the general exception which provides that "nothingis an offence which is done by a person who is bound by law to do it".