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Section 312 — Causing miscarriage

As in force on 1 January 2020.

Timeline 5 versions
  1. 30 March 1987 Enacted
  2. 30 November 2008 Revised edition
  3. 1 January 2020 Act 15 of 2019
  4. 31 December 2021 Revised edition
  5. 17 August 2026 Latest
Amended in force 1 January 2020 by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
312.Causing miscarriage

Subject to the provisions of the Termination of Pregnancy Act (Cap. 324), whoever voluntarily causes a woman with child to miscarry, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, or with fine, or with both; and if the woman is quick with childwoman’s pregnancy is of more than 16 weeks’ duration as calculated in accordance with section 4 of that Act, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Explanation.—A woman who causes herself to miscarry is within the meaning of this section.

[Indian PC 1860, s. 312]