CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 54A Bestiality

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 54A

    (1)     A person (A) commits an offence if A intentionally—

        (a)     sexually penetrates an animal; or

        (b)     causes or allows an animal to sexually penetrate A.

    (2)     A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable to level 6 imprisonment (5 years maximum).

Notes

1     See section 35A(3) for the meaning of sexual penetration of an animal.

2     See section 35A(4) for the meaning of sexual penetration by an animal.

3     An exception applies to this offence—see section 54B.

S. 54B inserted by No. 47/2016 s. 16.