8. Except in an emergency, no midwife may provide care or services to a woman if the pregnancy, labour, delivery or postnatal period involves a particular risk or presents signs of complications, according to the criteria established under the second paragraph of section 23. The same applies with respect to a newborn child whose condition does not satisfy the criteria established under the said section.
A midwife may, however, provide or continue to provide care or services to the woman or newborn child where the physician in charge of the woman or child consents thereto.