Performance of medical abortion by certain other registered health practitioners at not more than 23 weeks
202MD Performance of medical abortion by certain other registered health practitioners at not more than 23 weeks
In this section —
prescribing practitioner means a person who is a member of a class of registered health practitioners that —
is authorised under the Medicines and Poisons Act 2014 to prescribe an abortion drug; and
is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.
A prescribing practitioner is authorised to perform an abortion on a person who is not more than 23 weeks pregnant if the prescribing practitioner performs the abortion by —
prescribing an abortion drug for the person; or
supplying or administering an abortion drug to the person.
[Section 202MD inserted: No. 20 of 2023 s. 8.]
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