{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-female-circumcision-act-1985/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-female-circumcision-act-1985/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/38",
  "legislation_title": "Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-female-circumcision-act-1985",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Prohibition of female circumcision.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to section 2 below, it shall be an offence for any person—\n(a) to excise, infibulate or otherwise mutilate the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of another person; or\n(b) to aid, abet, counsel or procure the performance by another person of any of those acts on that other person’s own body.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both; or\n(b) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum . . . or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act ceases to have effect (E.W.N.I.) (3.3.2004) by virtue of Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c. 31), ss. 7(1), 8(2) (with s. 8(5)); S.I. 2004/286, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (1.9.2005) by Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 8), s. 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(2)(b) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIV Gp. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/38/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:14.206629+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}