Page:The Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023.pdf/6

Act :"male person" means a person born with a male sexual organ;


 * "Minister" means the Minister responsible for ethics and integrity;


 * "organisation" means a legally constituted non-governmental organisation registered under the Non-Governmental Organisations Act, 2016 and includes a private voluntary grouping of individuals or associations established to provide voluntary services to a community or any part of the community, but not for profit or commercial purposes;


 * "person in authority" means a person who is charged with the duty or responsibility for the health, welfare or supervision of a person;


 * "serial offender" means a person who has previous convictions for the offence of homosexuality or related offences;


 * "sex" means the biological state of a person as either male or female and in the case of an intersex person, means the status adopted by the intersex person as being dominant either naturally or through medical transition but does not include sexual orientation;


 * "sex contraption" means a device or object used to stimulate a sexual organ or to simulate sexual intercourse between persons of the same sex;


 * "sexual act" means the stimulation or penetration, however slight—


 * (a) of a person's anus or mouth by a sexual organ of another person of the same sex;


 * (b) of a person's anus, sexual organ or mouth by a sex contraption, by a person of the same sex; or


 * (c) of a person's anus or sexual organ by any part of the body of a person of the same sex;