A person who has a conscientious objection to participation in a termination of pregnancy may refuse except where such participation is necessary to save the life of or prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman (Section 7). Amendments have been approved within the criminal procedure to abolish from the subsidiary legislation the application of the death penalty. Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment of Third Schedule) Regulations,1999. Regulation 2: "The Third Schedule of the Criminal Procedure Code is amended as followsa) under chapter VII by repealing the entry in the 4th column corresponding to section 39 in the first column and substituting therefore the words "imprisonment for life". Penal Code, 1/02/1955, Laws of Seychelles 1996. The Code, complying with the derogation of the sentence of death, establishes the only punishments that the courts are allowed to impose on the offenders: Section 25: "The following punishments may be inflicted by a courta) Imprisonment b) Fine c) Payment of compensation d) Finding security to keep the peace and be of good behaviour e) Liability to police supervision f) Forfeiture g) Any other punishment provided by this Code or by any other law". The following Sections of the Penal Code are more examples of the implementation of a mechanism for the protection of this right: Section 148: "Any woman who being with child with intent to or procure her own miscarriage unlawfully administers to herself any poison […] or uses any force of any kind or uses any other means whatever or permits any such thing or means […] is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years". Section 149: "Any person who unlawfully supplies to procure […] the miscarriage of a woman, whether she is or is not with child, is guilty of a felony, and liable to imprisonment for three years".