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South Australia
Criminal Law Consolidation (Offences Against Unborn
Child) Amendment Bill 2013
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Criminal
Law Consolidation Act 1935.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law
Consolidation Act 1935
3Amendment of section 19A—Causing
death or harm by use of vehicle or vessel
4Insertion of heading to
Subdivision 1
5Insertion of heading to Subdivision 2
6Insertion of
heading to Subdivision 3
7Insertion of heading to Subdivision 4
8Insertion
of Subdivision 5
Subdivision 5—Offences against unborn
child
31AOffences against
unborn child
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law Consolidation (Offences
Against Unborn Child) Amendment Act 2013.
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 Criminal Law Consolidation
Act 1935
3—Amendment
of section 19A—Causing death or harm by use of vehicle or
vessel
Section 19A—after subsection (3) insert:
(4) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (3), a reference to
causing the death of another person, or harm to another person, includes causing
the death or causing harm to an unborn child.
4—Insertion
of heading to Subdivision 1
Before section 21 insert:
Subdivision 1—Preliminary
5—Insertion
of heading to Subdivision 2
Before section 23 insert:
Subdivision 2—Causing harm
6—Insertion
of heading to Subdivision 3
Before section 25 insert:
Subdivision 3—Alternative
verdicts
7—Insertion
of heading to Subdivision 4
Before section 29 insert:
Subdivision 4—Acts endangering life
etc
After section 31 insert:
Subdivision 5—Offences against unborn
child
31A—Offences against unborn
child
(1) A person who causes serious harm to a pregnant woman which causes her
unborn child to die is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for life.
(2) A person who causes serious harm to a pregnant woman which causes
serious harm to her unborn child is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 20 years.
(3) In this section—
pregnant woman means a female person of any age who is
pregnant.