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The age limit in the Austrian Empire was 14 years under § 128 of the Empire's Penal Code of 1852.<ref>117/1852 Ř.z., Zákon trestní o zločinech, přečinech a přestupcích: § 128 Zprznění</ref> Homosexual sexual intercourse and sexual intercourse with animals were generally grouped in as "crime against nature" by § 131.historic The Austrian Penal Code was replaced in Czechoslovakia in 1950. The Czechoslovak Penal Code 86/1950 Sb. in § 239 raised the limit to 15 years. Almost identical regulation was contained in the Czechoslovak penal code under 140/1961 Sb., which in § 242 reads: "A person who has coitus with a person under fifteen (15) years of age or who sexually abuses such a person in any other way shall be sentenced to imprisonment for at least one and at most eight years."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://trestni.juristic.cz/489540/oddil/trzo |title=J§ Trestní oblast: Z 019 Trestné činy proti lidské důstojnosti |access-date=10 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517051618/http://trestni.juristic.cz/489540/oddil/trzo |archive-date=17 May 2011}}</ref> The new Czech Penal Code (40/2009 Sb., effective from 2010 January 1) contains a similar regulation: § 187. Around 2008 and 2009, the lowering of the limits of [[criminal responsibility]] as well as sex [[Criminal responsibility|acts age limits]] from 15 to 14 years was passed in Parliament in the new Penal Code 40/2009 Sb. effective from 1 January 2010. Both changes were criticized. Before coming into effect, the amendment act 306/2009 Sb. changed both limits back to 15 years.
Until 1962, homosexual sexual intercourse was illegal in Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovak 140/1961 Sb., Penal Code, introduced in that year, still contained as a crime
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