Victorian Current Acts

ABORTION LAW REFORM ACT 2008 - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to reform the law relating to abortion; and

        (b)     to regulate health practitioners performing abortions; and

        (c)     to amend the Crimes Act 1958 —

              (i)     to repeal the provisions relating to abortion; and

              (ii)     to abolish the common law offences relating to abortion; and

              (iii)     to make it an offence for an unqualified person to perform an abortion; and

              (iv)     to amend the definition of serious injury to include the destruction of a foetus other than in the course of a medical procedure.