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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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