47EDirection on responses to a non‑consensual sexual act

47E Direction on responses to a non‑consensual sexual act

For the purposes of this Division, a direction on responses to a non-consensual sexual act is a direction informing the jury that experience shows that—

(a) people may react differently to a sexual act to which they did not consent, and there is no typical, proper or normal response; and

(b) people who do not consent to a sexual act may not protest or physically resist the act.

The person may freeze and not do or say anything.

S. 47F inserted by No. 38/2022 s. 48.