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CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 33B

33B—Removal of child from State for genital mutilation

        (1)         A person must not take a child from the State, or arrange for a child to be taken from the State, with the intention of having the child subjected to female genital mutilation.

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 State; and

            (b)         the child was subjected, while outside the State, to female genital mutilation,

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 State (as the case may be) with the intention of having the child subjected to female genital mutilation.



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