Section 92 - Definition of abduction

(1) A person commits the criminal offence of abduction of a child who with intent to deprive a person entitled to the possession or control of the child or with intent to cause the child to be carnally known or unnaturally carnally known by any other person

(a) unlawfully takes the child from the lawful possession, care or charge of a person, or

(b) detains the child and prevents the child from returning to the lawful possession, care or charge of a person.

(2) The possession, control, care or charge of a child by a parent, guardian, or any other person continues although the child is absent from actual possession, control, care, or charge, if the absence is for a special purpose only, and is not intended by the parent, guardian, or the other person to exclude or determine the possession, control, care, or charge for the time being.

(3) A person does not commit the criminal offence of abduction by taking or detaining a child unless that person knew, or had grounds for believing that the child was in the possession, control, care, or charge of another person.