ABORTION LAW REFORM ACT 2019 - SECT 8
Registered health practitioners who may assist
ABORTION LAW REFORM ACT 2019 - SECT 8
Registered health practitioners who may assist
8 Registered health practitioners who may assist
(1) A person who is a medical practitioner, nurse, midwife, pharmacist or
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner, or another
registered health practitioner prescribed by the regulations, may, in the
practice of the person's health profession, assist in the performance of a
termination on a person by a medical practitioner.
(2) However, subsection
(1) does not apply in relation to a termination that the assisting registered
health practitioner knows, or ought reasonably to know, is being performed
other than as authorised under section 5 or 6.
(3) A reference in this
section to assisting in the performance of a termination includes dispensing,
supplying or administering a termination drug on the instruction of the
medical practitioner.
