CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 50BA

(1)

A person must not, while outside Australia, engage in sexual intercourse with a person who is under 16.

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.