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CONVERSION PRACTICES PROHIBITION ACT 2024 (NO 39 OF 2024) - SECT 7

7—Offence to take individual from SA, or engage person outside SA, for conversion practices

        (1)         A person commits an offence if that person

            (a)         takes an individual from South Australia, or arranges for the individual to be taken from South Australia, with the intention that a conversion practice be delivered or provided to the individual outside South Australia; or

            (b)         engages a person outside South Australia to provide or deliver a conversion practice to an individual in South Australia.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years or $15 000, or both.

        (2)         To avoid doubt, subsection (1)

applies whether or not any of the following consents to the individual being taken from South Australia or arranges for the individual to be taken from South Australia, or consents to the conversion practice being provided or delivered:

            (a)         the individual;

            (b)         if the individual lacks legal capacity—a parent, guardian or other person who has decision-making authority for the individual.

        (3)         In this section—

"person" does not include an individual under the age of 18 years.



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