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HUMAN
FERTILIZATION AND EMBRIOLOGY ACT 1990 (C. 37)
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Abortion
37
- Amendment
of law relating to termination of pregnancy.
(1) For paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 1(1) of the [1967 c. 87.]
Abortion Act 1967 (grounds for medical termination of pregnancy)
there is substituted— " (a) that the pregnancy has not
exceeded its twenty-fourth week and that the continuance of the
pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were
terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant
woman or any existing children of her family; or
(b) that the termination is necessary to prevent grave permanent
injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman; or
(c) that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to
the life of the pregnant woman, greater than if the pregnancy were
terminated; or
(d) that there is a substantial risk that if the child were born
it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to
be seriously handicapped."
(2) In section 1(2) of that Act, after "(a)" there is
inserted "or (b)".
(3) After section 1(3) of that Act there is inserted— "(3A)
The power under subsection (3) of this section to approve a place
includes power, in relation to treatment consisting primarily
in the use of such medicines as may be specified in the approval
and carried out in such manner as may be so specified, to approve
a class of places."
(4) For section 5(1) of that Act (effect on [1929 c. 34.] Infant
Life (Preservation) Act 1929) there is substituted— "(1)
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."
(5) In section 5(2) of that Act, for the words from "the
miscarriage" to the end there is substituted "a woman's
miscarriage (or, in the case of a woman carrying more than one
foetus, her miscarriage of any foetus) is unlawfully done unless
authorised by section 1 of this Act and, in the case of a woman
carrying more than one foetus, anything done with intent to procure
her miscarriage of any foetus is authorised by that section if—
(a) the ground for termination of the pregnancy specified in subsection
(1)(d) of that section applies in relation to any foetus and the
thing is done for the purpose of procuring the miscarriage of
that foetus, or
(b) any of the other grounds for termination of the pregnancy
specified in that section applies"
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