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CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 74

Prohibition of female genital mutilation

    (1)     A person shall not intentionally perform female genital mutilation on another person.

Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 15 years.

    (2)     It is not a defence to a prosecution for an offence against this section that the person on whom the female genital mutilation was performed, or a parent or guardian of that person, consented to the mutilation.



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