Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 50BB

             (1)  A person must not induce a person who is under 16 to engage in sexual intercourse with a third person outside Australia and in the presence of the first‑mentioned person.

Penalty:  Imprisonment for 17 years.

             (2)  For the purposes of an offence against subsection (1), absolute liability applies to the following physical elements of circumstance of the offence:

                     (a)  that the sexual intercourse is engaged in outside Australia;

                     (b)  that the person referred to in that subsection as being under 16 is in fact under 16.

Note 1:       For absolute liability , see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code .

Note 2:       For a defence based on belief about age, see section 50CA.