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Medical Practitioners Act 1995

II: Restrictions on Practice of Medicine
11   Duty of practitioners in respect of family planning



   11. Duty of practitioners in respect of family planning---Every
 medical practitioner who---
   (a) Is requested by a person to provide any advice or other service
         with respect to contraception, sterilisation, or other family
         planning matters; and
   (b) Objects on the grounds of conscience to providing that service---
 shall inform the person that he or she may obtain that service from
 another medical practitioner or a family planning clinic.
     Cf. 1968, No. 46, s.43A; 1977, No. 118, s. 2
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