76Exception—medical procedures for genuine therapeutic

76 Exception—medical procedures for genuine therapeutic purposes (1) It is not an offence against this part to perform a medical procedure that has a genuine therapeutic purpose or to take a person, or arrange for a person to be taken, from the ACT with the intention of having such a procedure performed on the person. (2) A medical procedure has a genuine therapeutic purpose only if— (a) performed on a person in labour, or who has just given birth, and for medical purposes connected with the labour or birth, by a doctor or midwife; or (b) it is necessary for the health of the person on whom it is performed and is performed by a doctor. (3) A medical procedure that is performed as, or as part of, a cultural, religious or other social custom is not of itself to be regarded as being performed for a genuine therapeutic purpose. Female genital mutilation Part 4