Criminal Code Act 1995

Schedule - The Criminal Code  

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 268.23  

268.23   Crime against humanity - other inhumane act  
A person (the perpetrator ) commits an offence if:


(a) the perpetrator causes great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health, by means of an inhumane act; and


(b) the act is of a character similar to another proscribed inhumane act as defined by the Dictionary; 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.




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