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The Abortion (Scotland) Regulations 1991

Abortion

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2016-04-12

MEDICAL PROFESSION

hese Regulations (which extend to Scotland only) are made under section 2 of the Abortion Act 1967, and replace the Abortion (Scotland) Regulations 1968 and the three sets of amending regulations. These Regulations make new provision to take account in particular of the amendments to the Abortion Act 1967 made by section 37 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (c. 37), including the new grounds for abortion introduced by those amendments.