Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 33

S. 33(1) amended by No. 48/1997
s. 60(1)(Sch. 1 item 18).

    (1)     A person must not take another person from the State, or arrange for another person to be taken from the State, with the intention of having prohibited female genital mutilation performed on the other person.

Penalty:     Level 4 imprisonment (15 years maximum).

S. 33(2) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 40.2).

    (2)     In proceedings for an offence under subsection (1), proof that—

S. 33(2)(a) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 40.2).

        (a)     the accused took the person, or arranged for the person to be taken from the State; and

        (b)     the person was subjected, while outside the State, to prohibited female genital mutilation—

is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, proof that the accused took the person or arranged for the person to be taken from the State with the intention of having prohibited female genital mutilation performed on the person.

New s. 34
inserted by No. 46/1996
s. 4.