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Western Australia
Children and Community Services Amendment
(Body Piercing) Bill 2007
CONTENTS
Part 1 -- Preliminary
1. Short title 2
2. Commencement 2
Part 2 -- Amendment to the Children
and Community Services Act 2004
3. The Act amended 3
4. Sections 103A and 103B inserted 3
103A. Body piercing 3
103B. Particular body piercing of a child
prohibited 3
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Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
(Introduced by Dr Woollard, MLA)
Children and Community Services Amendment
(Body Piercing) Bill 2007
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Children and Community Services Act 2004.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
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Children and Community Services Amendment (Body Piercing) Bill 2007
Part 1 Preliminary
s. 1
Part 1 -- Preliminary
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Children and Community Services
Amendment (Body Piercing) Act 2007.
5 2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.
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Children and Community Services Amendment (Body Piercing) Bill 2007
Amendment to the Children and Community Services Act 2004 Part 2
s. 3
Part 2 -- Amendment to the Children and Community
Services Act 2004
3. The Act amended
The amendment in this Part is to the Children and Community
5 Services Act 2004.
4. Sections 103A and 103B inserted
After section 103 the following sections are inserted --
"
103A. Body piercing
10 (1) Subject to section 103B, a person must not pierce any
part of the body of a child unless the person has first
obtained the written consent of a parent of the child to
pierce that part of the child's body.
Penalty: $12 000 and imprisonment for one year.
15 (2) This section does not apply in relation to a piercing
performed for a medical or therapeutic purpose.
103B. Particular body piercing of a child prohibited
(1) A person must not perform body piercing to any part
of --
20 (a) the external genitalia of a female who is a child;
or
(b) the penis or scrotal skin of a male who is a
child; or
(c) the nipples of a child.
25 Penalty: $12 000 and imprisonment for one year.
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Children and Community Services Amendment (Body Piercing) Bill 2007
Part 2 Amendment to the Children and Community Services Act 2004
s. 4
(2) It is not a defence to an offence under subsection (1)
that the child, or a parent of the child, consented to the
body piercing.
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