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2. Thus clause 2 of this Bill substitutes for section 77 of the principal Ordinance a new section of which sub-sections (1), (4) and (5) are reproductions with the necessary modifica- tions of section 1 and sub-sections (4) and (5) of section 2 respectively of the Act of 1931.
Sub-section (2) retains the provisions of old section 77 regarding the examination of a convicted woman, who claims to be pregnant, by two or more medical practitioners sworn for the purpose, instead of, as in England, by a jury de ventre inspiciendo; but includes also the provisions of the 1931 Act to the effect that (a) the procedure for determination of the question of pregnancy is to be carried out before sentence instead of on a motion, after sentence, in arrest of execution, and (b) the Court may order the examination ex proprio motu.
3. Similarly clause 3 reproduces with the necessary modi- fications sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of section I of the Infanticide Act, 1922.
September, 1934.
R. E. LINDSELL,
Attorney General.
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