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The Abortion (Amendment) Regulations 2022

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

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These Regulations amend the Abortion Regulations 1991 (“the 1991 Regulations”).

The 1991 Regulations are amended to take account of the amendments made to the Abortion Act 1967 (c. 87) (“the 1967 Act”) made by the Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31) (“the 2022 Act”). The 2022 Act amended the 1967 Act to permit early medical termination of pregnancy to take place in the patient’s home (see section 178 of the 2022 Act), as well as permitting medicine for the termination to be prescribed by a registered medical practitioner from their usual place of residence in England or in Wales.

In consequence of the changes made by the 2022 Act, these Regulations—

(a)prescribe the form to be used by a registered medical practitioner to certify their opinion under section 1(3B)(b) of the 1967 Act, and the time for such certification;

(b)provide for the preservation and disposal of such certificates;

(c)set out the information which must be given to the Chief Medical Officer in connection with the early medical termination of pregnancy.

The disclosure of the information mentioned in paragraph (c) will be restricted by regulation 5 of the 1991 Regulations.

An impact assessment relating to the changes made by section 178 of the 2022 Act (to which these Regulations are consequential) is being prepared and will be published in autumn 2022. When the impact assessment is published, a hard copy will be obtainable by writing to the Department of Health and Social Care, 39 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0EU.

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