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CRIMES AMENDMENT (GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM) BILL 2010





                                New South Wales




Crimes Amendment (Grievous Bodily
Harm) Bill 2010


Contents

                                                                   Page
                    1   Name of Act                                   2
                    2   Commencement                                  2
                    3   Amendment of Crimes Act 1900 No 40            2




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Crimes Amendment (Grievous Bodily
Harm) Bill 2010
No      , 2010


A Bill for

An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1900 to ensure that offences under that Act relating
to the infliction of grievous bodily harm extend to the destruction of a child in utero
of a pregnant woman (other than in the course of a medical procedure).
Clause 1          Crimes Amendment (Grievous Bodily Harm) Bill 2010




The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:                                                   1

 1    Name of Act                                                                            2

               This Act is the Crimes Amendment (Grievous Bodily Harm) Act 2010.             3

 2    Commencement                                                                           4

               This Act commences on the date of assent.                                     5

 3    Amendment of Crimes Act 1900 No 40                                                     6

         (1)   Section 4 Definitions                                                         7

               Omit paragraph (a) of the definition of Grievous bodily harm from             8
               section 4 (1).                                                                9

               Insert instead:                                                              10
                             (a)   the destruction (other than in the course of a medical   11
                                   procedure) of a child in utero of a pregnant woman,      12
                                   whether or not the woman suffers any other harm,         13
                                   and                                                      14

         (2)   Section 4 (1), definition of "Grievous bodily harm"                          15

               Insert at the end of the definition:                                         16

                            For the purposes of paragraph (a) of this definition, a child   17
                            in utero is any form of human life in either the embryonic      18
                            or foetal stage of development.                                 19




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