Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929

The Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929^[1]
Dates
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to amend the law with regard to the destruction of children at or before birth.
Citation	19 & 20 Geo.5 c.34
Territorial extent	England and Wales^[2]
Royal assent	10 May 1929
Commencement	10 May 1929^[3]
Status: Amended
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It creates the offence of child destruction.

The Bill for this Act was initially introduced as the Child Destruction Bill. It was reintroduced in the next session as the Preservation of Infant Life Bill.^[4]

It also amended the law (Offences against the Person Act 1861) so that an abortion carried out in good faith, for the sole purpose of preserving the life of the mother, would not be an offence.

Relationship with the Abortion Act 1967

The Abortion Act 1967 makes abortion legal in a number of circumstances when conducted in accordance with the regulations of the act.^[5]

The 1967 Act—as amended by s37 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990—explicitly notes that abortions performed under the terms of the 1967 Act are not offences under the 1929 Act.^[5]

No offence under the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 shall be committed by a registered medical practitioner who terminates a pregnancy in accordance with the provisions of this Act [the Abortion Act].^[6]

References

↑ This short title is conferred by section 3(1) of this Act.
↑ This is the effect of section 3(2) of this Act and the presumption that an Act of Parliament applies to the United Kingdom unless the contrary is specified
↑ This Act came into force on the date that it received royal assent because no other date was specified: Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793
↑ HL Deb. Vol 72. 269.
1 2 Smith and Hogan, 12th edition, p.568
↑ s37 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, legislation.gov.uk

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