That same year, an Ipsos survey found that 44% of Singapore residents supported retaining the law, with 20% opposing it and the remaining 36% being ambivalent. On 28 February 2022, the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Singapore reaffirmed that 377A could not be used to prosecute men for having gay sex. While a small number of people were convicted under the section for private consensual acts between adults from 1988 until 2007, enforcement effectively ceased outright following the Penal Code review, despite the retention of section 377A from 2007 to 2022. Prior to the repeal, the law, while retained de jure in the Penal Code, had been for many years de facto unenforced – there had been no convictions for sex between consenting male adults in decades. It was subsequently repealed in its entirety in 2023.
It remained a part of the Singapore body of law after the Penal Code review of 2007 that removed most of the other provisions in Section 377.
It was introduced under British colonial rule in 1938 when it was added to the Penal Code by the colonial government.
Section 377A was a Singaporean law that criminalised sex between consenting adult males.
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