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TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY ACT 2021 - SECT 12

12—Health practitioner must not terminate pregnancy for sex selection

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), a registered health practitioner must not perform a termination of a pregnancy for the purposes of sex-selection.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply to the performance of a termination if the registered health practitioner is satisfied that there is a substantial risk that the person born after the pregnancy (but for the termination) would suffer a sex-linked medical condition that would result in serious disability to that person.



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