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Last Updated: 21 March 2018
AN ACT TO REPEAL THE PENAL CODE AND MAKE COMPREHENSIVE PROVISION IN RELATION TO THE ELEMENTS OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY AND TO PRESCRIBE A RANGE OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES, AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES
[CR 89] Crime against humanity — sexual slavery89
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- (a)the perpetrator causes another person to enter into or remain in sexual slavery; and
- (b)the perpetrator intends to cause, or is reckless as to causing, that sexual slavery; 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) For the purposes of this section, sexual slavery is the condition of a person who provides sexual services and who, because of the use of force or threats—
- (a)is not free to cease providing sexual services; or
- (b)is not free to leave the place or area where the person provides sexual services.
(3) In this section—
- sexual service
means the use or display of the body of the person providing the service for the sexual gratification of others; and
- threat
means—
- (a)a threat of force; or
- (b)a threat to cause a person's deportation; or
- (c)a threat of any other detrimental action unless there are reasonable grounds for the threat of that action in connection with the provision of sexual services by a person.