Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p221
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 221/268)
Character Range: 932062–934876

submits to the act because of psychological oppression or abuse of power;
(g) the person submits to the act because of the perpetrator taking advantage of a coercive environment.
threat of force or coercion includes:
 (a) a threat of force or coercion such as that caused by fear of violence, duress, detention, psychological oppression or abuse of power; or
 (b) taking advantage of a coercive environment.
 (3) In subsection (1), being reckless as to whether there is consent to one or more acts of a sexual nature includes not giving any thought to whether or not the person or persons are consenting to engaging in the act or acts of a sexual nature.

268.17  Crime against humanity—forced pregnancy
 (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator unlawfully confines one or more women forcibly made pregnant; and
 (b) the perpetrator intends to affect the ethnic composition of any population or to destroy, wholly or partly, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such; 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) In subsection (1):
forcibly made pregnant includes made pregnant by a consent that was affected by deception or by natural, induced or age‑related incapacity.
 (3) To avoid doubt, this section does not affect any other law of the Commonwealth or any law of a State or Territory.

268.18  Crime against humanity—enforced sterilisation
 (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator deprives one or more persons of biological reproductive capacity; and
 (b) the deprivation is not effected by a birth‑control measure that has a non‑permanent effect in practice; and
 (c) the perpetrator's conduct is neither justified by the medical or hospital treatment of the person or persons nor carried out with the consent of the person or persons; and
 (d) 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):
consent does not include consent effected by deception or by natural, induced or age‑related incapacity.

268.19  Crime against humanity—sexual violence
 (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator does either of the following:
 (i) commits an act or acts of a sexual nature against one or more persons;
 (ii) causes one or more persons to engage in an act or acts of a sexual nature;
  without the consent of the person or persons, including by being reckless as to whether there is consent; and
 (b) the perpetrator's conduct is of a gravity comparable to the offences referred