Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 19851 Prohibition of female circumcision.2 Saving for necessary surgical operations.3(1) . . . . . . . . ....4 Short title, commencement, and extent.Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 19851985 CHAPTER 38An Act to prohibit female circumcision.[16th July 1985]F1F2Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—