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Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985
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Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985
1985 CHAPTER 38
An Act to prohibit female circumcision.
[16th July 1985]
Textual Amendments
F1Act ceases to have effect (E.W.N.I.) (3.3.2004) by virtue of Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c. 31), ss. 7(1), 8(2) (with s. 8(5)); S.I. 2004/286, art. 2
F2Act repealed (S.) (1.9.2005) by Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 8), s. 7(2)
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force on 16.9.1985; see s. 4(2)
1 Prohibition of female circumcision.U.K.
F1[F3(1)Subject to section 2 below, it shall be an offence for any person—
(a)to excise, infibulate or otherwise mutilate the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of another person; or
(b)to aid, abet, counsel or procure the performance by another person of any of those acts on that other person’s own body.
(2)A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—
(a)on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both; or
(b)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum F4. . . or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both.]
Textual Amendments
F1Act ceases to have effect (E.W.N.I.) (3.3.2004) by virtue of Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c. 31), ss. 7(1), 8(2) (with s. 8(5)); S.I. 2004/286, art. 2
F3Act repealed (S.) (1.9.2005) by Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 8), s. 7(2)
F4Words in s. 1(2)(b) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIV Gp. 2
2 Saving for necessary surgical operations.U.K.
(1)Subsection (1)(a) of section 1 shall not render unlawful the performance of a surgical operation if that operation—
(a)is necessary for the physical or mental health of the person on whom it is performed and is performed by a registered medical practitioner; or
(b)is performed on a person who is in any stage of labour or has just given birth and is so performed for purposes connected with that labour or birth by—
(i)a registered medical practitioner or a registered midwife; or
(ii)a person undergoing a course of training with a view to becoming a registered medical practitioner or a registered midwife.
(2)In determining for the purposes of this section whether an operation is necessary for the mental health of a person, no account shall be taken of the effect on that person of any belief on the part of that or any other person that the operation is required as a matter of custom or ritual.
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(a)in the list of extradition crimes contained in Schedule 1 to the M1Extradition Act 1870; and
(b)among the descriptions of offences set out in Schedule 1 to the M2Fugitive Offenders Act 1967.
(2)In paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the M3Visiting Forces Act 1952 (offences against the person in the case of which a member of a visiting force is in certain circumstances not liable to be tried by a United Kingdom court), at the end of paragraph (b) there shall be inserted, appropriately numbered, the following paragraph—
“(0)section 1 of the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985.”.
Textual Amendments
F5S. 3(1) repealed by Extradition Act 1989 (c. 33, SIF 48), s. 37, Sch. 2
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4 Short title, commencement, and extent.U.K.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985.
(2)This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which it is passed.
(3)This Act extends to Northern Ireland.
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