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SEXUALITY AND GENDER IDENTITY CONVERSION PRACTICES ACT 2020 (NO. 49 OF 2020) - SECT 8

Offence—performing conversion practice on protected person

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person performs a sexuality or gender identity conversion practice on another person (the recipient ); and

        (b)     the recipient is a protected person.

Maximum penalty: 150 penalty units, imprisonment for 12 months or both.

    (2)     A person commits an offence against subsection (1) whether or not the recipient, or a parent or guardian of the recipient, consented to the practice.



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