Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) It is not an offence against this part to perform a medical procedure that has a genuine therapeutic purpose or to take a person, or arrange for a person to be taken, from the ACT with the intention of having such a procedure performed on the person.
(2) A medical procedure has a genuine therapeutic purpose only if—
(a) performed on a person in labour, or who has just given birth, and for medical purposes connected with the labour or birth, by a doctor or midwife; or
(b) it is necessary for the health of the person on whom it is performed and is performed by a doctor.
(3) A medical procedure that is performed as, or as part of, a cultural, religious or other social custom is not of itself to be regarded as being performed for a genuine therapeutic purpose.