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In forceException—sexual reassignment procedures
Part 4Female genital mutilation
77 Exception—sexual reassignment procedures
(1)
It is not an offence against this part to perform a sexual reassignment procedure or to take, or arrange for a person to be taken, from the ACT with the intention of having a sexual reassignment procedure performed on the person.
(2)
In subsection (1):
sexual reassignment procedure means a surgical procedure performed by a medical practitioner to give a female person, or a person whose sex is ambivalent, the genital appearance of a person of the opposite sex or of a particular sex (whether male or female).
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