2013, No. 10
Crimes
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113. Female procuring her own miscarriage - A woman or
girl is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven (7)
years who with intent to procure miscarriage, whether she is with
child or not:
(a) unlawfully administers to herself, or permits to be
administered to her, any poison or any drug or any
noxious thing; or
(b) unlawfully uses on herself, or permits to be used on
her, any instrument; or
(c) unlawfully uses on herself, or permits to be used on
her, any other means whatsoever.
114. Supplying means of procuring abortion - A person is
liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven (7) years
who unlawfully supplies or procures any poison or any drug or
any noxious thing, or any instrument or other thing, whether of a
like nature or not, believing that it is intended to be unlawfully
used to procure miscarriage.
115. Effectiveness of means used immaterial - Sections
112 to 114 shall apply whether or not the poison, drug, thing,
instrument, or means administered, taken, used, supplied, or
procured was in fact capable of procuring miscarriage.
116. Meaning of “unlawfully” - In sections 112 to 114,
any act specified in either of those sections is done unlawfully
unless, in the case of a pregnancy of not more than 20 weeks’
gestation, the person doing the act:
(a) is a registered medical practitioner; and
(b) believes that the continuance of the pregnancy would
result in serious danger (not being danger
normally attendant upon childbirth) to the life, or
to the physical or mental health, of the woman or
girl.
117. Concealing dead body of a child - A person is liable
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two (2) years
who disposes of the dead body of any child in any manner with