Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 75

    (1)     A person shall not take a child from the ACT, or arrange for a child to be taken from the ACT, with the intention of having female genital mutilation performed on the child.

Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 7 years.

    (2)     In proceedings for an offence against subsection (1), if it is proved that—

        (a)     the defendant took a child, or arranged for a child to be taken, from the ACT; and

        (b)     female genital mutilation was performed on the child while outside the ACT;

it will be presumed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, that the defendant took the child, or arranged for the child to be taken, from the ACT with the intention of having female genital mutilation performed on the child.

    (3)     In this section:

"child" means a person under the age of 18 years.