{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861/section-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861/section-59.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/24-25/100",
  "legislation_title": "Offences against the Person Act 1861",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861",
  "path": "section/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Procuring drugs, &c. to cause abortion.",
  "text": "Whosoever shall unlawfully supply or procure any poison or other noxious thing, or any instrument or thing whatsoever, knowing that the same is intended to be unlawfully used or employed with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she be or be not with child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable ... to be kept in penal servitude ...",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 59 repealed (N.I.) (22.10.2019) by Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 (c. 22), ss. 9(2), 13(4) (with s. 12(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 59 excluded (29.4.2026) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 20), ss. 241, 255(2)(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 59 explained by Abortion Act 1967 (c. 87), ss. 1, 5(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/section/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:09:26.210595+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}