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Indecent practices between males
Section 155. “Any male person who, whether in public or private, commits any act of gross indecency with
another male person, or procures another male person to commit any act of gross indecency with him, or
attempts to procure the commission of any such act by any male person with himself or with another male
person, whether in public or private, shall be guilty of a felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for 5
years.”
Nauru
Male/Male Illegal Female/Female Legal
Criminal Code of Queensland in its application to Nauru on 1 July 1921
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Section 208. Unnatural Offences
“Any person who:
(1) Has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature; or
(2) Has carnal knowledge of an animal; or
(3) Permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for fourteen years"
Section 209. Attempt to commit Unnatural Offences
“Any person who attempts to commit any of the crimes defined in the last preceding section is guilty of a
crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for seven years. The offender cannot be arrested
without warrant.”
Section 211. Indecent Practices between Males
“Any male person who, whether in public or private, commits any act of gross indecency with another male
person, or procures another male person to commit any act of gross indecency with him, or attempts to
procure the commission of any such act by any male person with himself or with another male person,
whether in public or private, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for
three years.”
Palau
Male/Male Illegal Female/Female Legal
Palau National Code; Penal Code 243
§ 2803. Sodomy.
“Every person who shall unlawfully and voluntarily have any sexual relations of an unnatural manner with a
member of the same or the other sex, or shall have any carnal connection in any manner with a beast, shall
be guilty of sodomy, and upon conviction thereof be imprisoned for a period of not more than 10 years;
provided, that the term “sodomy” shall embrace any and all parts of the sometimes written “abominable
and detestable crime against nature””.
241 Text of the law available at: http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/library/Paclaw/Nauru/Indices/Nauru_laws.html.
242 Criminal Code 1899, available at : http://ozcase.library.qut.edu.au/qhlc/documents/CrimCode1899_63Vic_9.pdf.
243 Palau, 1995, Palau National Code Annotated. Koror/Palau: Orakiruu Corporation. Volume 1.
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