Criminal Code Act 1995
Schedule
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The Criminal Code
A person (the perpetrator ) commits an offence if:
(a) the perpetrator unlawfully confines one or more women forcibly made pregnant; and
(b) the perpetrator intends to affect the ethnic composition of any population or to destroy, wholly or partly, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such; and
(c) the perpetrator ' s conduct is committed intentionally or knowingly as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population.
(2)
In subsection (1) :
(3)
To avoid doubt, this section does not affect any other law of the Commonwealth or any law of a State or Territory.
Section 3
CHAPTER 8 - OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY AND RELATED OFFENCES Division 268 - Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against the administration of the justice of the International Criminal Court Subdivision C - Crimes against humanity SECTION 268.17 Crime against humanity - forced pregnancy (1)A person (the perpetrator ) commits an offence if:
(a) the perpetrator unlawfully confines one or more women forcibly made pregnant; and
(b) the perpetrator intends to affect the ethnic composition of any population or to destroy, wholly or partly, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such; and
(c) the perpetrator ' s conduct is committed intentionally or knowingly as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 25 years.
(2)
In subsection (1) :
forcibly made pregnant
includes made pregnant by a consent that was affected by deception or by natural, induced or age-related incapacity.
(3)
To avoid doubt, this section does not affect any other law of the Commonwealth or any law of a State or Territory.
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