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.
Illustrations
(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
offences; 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 murder. 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".
Section 1 Title and extent of operation of the Code
Section 2 Punishment of offences committed within India
Section 3 Punishment of offences committed beyond, but which by law may be tried within, India
Section 4 Extension of Code to extra-territorial offences
Section 5 Certain laws not to be affected by this Act
Section 6 Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions
Section 7 Sense of expression once explained