Clause 9

by deleting the words “Abortion Act, 1969” in the illustration to section 91 and substituting the words “Abortion Act, 1974”;

by deleting the words “Where any person, other than a registered medical practitioner permitted or authorised to terminate a pregnancy under the provisions of the Abortion Act, 1969, and on the grounds specified in subsection (2) of section 5 of that Act,” in sections 312 and 314 and substituting in each case the words “Subject to the provisions of the Abortion Act, 1974 (Act 24 of 1974), whoever”; and

by deleting subsection (1) of section 315 and substituting the following subsection: —“(1) Subject to the provisions of the Abortion Act, 1974, whoever, with intent to destroy the life of a child capable of being born alive, by any wilful act causes a child to die before it has an existence independent of its mother or by such act causes the child to die after its birth, shall, unless such act is immediately necessary to save the life of the mother, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or to both such imprisonment and fine.”.