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CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 33

33—Definitions

        (1)         In this Division—

"child" means a person under 18;

"female genital mutilation" means—

            (a)         clitoridectomy; or

            (b)         excision of any other part of the female genital organs; or

            (c)         a procedure to narrow or close the vaginal opening; or

            (d)         any other mutilation of the female genital organs,

but does not include a sexual reassignment procedure or a medical procedure that has a genuine therapeutic purpose;

"sexual reassignment procedure" means a surgical procedure to give a female, or a person whose sex is ambivalent, genital characteristics, or ostensible genital characteristics, of a male.

        (2)         A medical procedure has a genuine therapeutic purpose only if directed at curing or alleviating a physiological disability or physical abnormality.



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