POPULATION-RELATED LAWS OF
A. Constitution
1. Constitution
B. Population Policy
1. Children
Development Savings Act
This Act is designed
to encourage married women in
Among other things,
this Act allows expanded child deductions for women who have attained a certain
level of education (Fifth Schedule to the Act).
C. Reproductive
Health and Rights
1. Voluntary
Sterilization Act
2. Penal
Code
Abortion (Sections
312-316)
3. Termination
of Pregnancy Act
4. Termination of Pregnancy Regulations
5. Medicines
(Advertisement and Sale) Act
This Act prohibits
advertisements related to abortion, infertility, conception, and pregnancy.
D. Women’s Human
Rights
E.
Family Law
This law regulates
marriage, divorce, child and spousal support, and marital relationships between
persons nit married under Islamic law.
Domestic violence
(Sections 64-67)
2. Administration
of Muslim Law Act
Among other things,
this Act regulates
3. Maintenance
Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act
4. Maintenance
Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act
5. Inheritance
(Family Provision) Act
F. Children and
Adolescents
1. Children
and Young Person’s Act
3. Guardianship
of Infants Act
G. Health and HIV/AIDS
1. Medical
and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes Act
This Act provides
for the payment of health care costs for persons who are unable to do so.
3. Indecent
Advertisements Act
This Act prohibits
advertisements for the treatment of venereal diseases.
H. Criminal
Law
1. Penal
Code
Abortion (Sections
312-316)
Infection
with a sexually transmitted disease (Sections 269-270)
Sex offenses (Section
354, 375-377)
Pornography (Sections
292-294)
Prostitution (Sections
372-373
Trafficking (Sections
366-367, 370-372 Article 172, 376-377)
Offenses against
marriage, the family, and minors (Sections 317-318, 361, 366, 369, 393-398)
2. Undesirable
Publications Act
3. Miscellaneous
Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act
This Act prohibits
activities related to prostitution.
Prostitution (Section
140, 142-159)
Trafficking (Section
141)
I. Labor Law