Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p217
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 217/268)
Character Range: 921927–924793

to a particular national, ethnical, racial or religious group; and
 (c) the perpetrator intends to destroy, in whole or in part, that national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such; and
 (d) the transfer is from that group to another national, ethnical, racial or religious group; and
 (e) the person or persons are under the age of 18 years; and
 (f) the perpetrator knows that, or is reckless as to whether, the person or persons are under that age.
Penalty: Imprisonment for life.
 (2) In subsection (1):
forcibly transfers one or more persons includes transfers one or more persons:
 (a) by threat of force or coercion (such as that caused by fear of violence, duress, detention, psychological oppression or abuse of power) against the person or persons or against another person; or
 (b) by taking advantage of a coercive environment.

Subdivision C—Crimes against humanity

268.8  Crime against humanity—murder
  A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator causes the death of one or more persons; and
 (b) 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 life.

268.9  Crime against humanity—extermination
 (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator causes the death of one or more persons; and
 (b) the perpetrator's conduct constitutes, or takes place as part of, a mass killing of members of a civilian population; 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 life.
 (2) In subsection (1):
causes the death of includes causes death by intentionally inflicting conditions of life (such as the deprivation of access to food or medicine) intended to bring about the destruction of part of a population.

268.10  Crime against humanity—enslavement
 (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator exercises any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over one or more persons (including the exercise of a power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children); and
 (b) 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) In subsection (1):
exercises any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person includes purchases, sells, lends or barters a person or imposes on a person a similar deprivation of liberty and also includes exercise a power arising from a debt incurred or contract made by a person.

268.11  Crime against humanity—deportation or forcible transfer of population
 (1) A