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South Australia
Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care
(Termination of Pregnancy) Amendment Bill 2010
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Consent
to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Commencement
3Amendment
provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Consent to Medical
Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995
4Insertion of section
15A
15ATermination of
pregnancy
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative
Care (Termination of Pregnancy) Amendment Act 2010.
This Act will come into operation 6 months after the day on which it
is assented to by the Governor.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative
Care Act 1995
After section 15 insert:
15A—Termination of pregnancy
Before any treatment for the termination of a pregnancy in accordance with
section 82A(1)(a) of the Criminal
Law Consolidation Act 1935 is carried out, the medical practitioner
who will be performing the termination must, at the time of the personal
examination of the woman referred to in that section, ensure the patient has
been given a pamphlet in the form prescribed by the regulations, which contains
the following:
(a) information with respect to the option of having the baby adopted
including general information about the processes involved; and
(b) information with respect to the option of having the baby placed in
foster care including general information about the processes
involved.