{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-act-1967/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-act-1967/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/87",
  "legislation_title": "Abortion Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-act-1967",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of Act to visiting forces etc.",
  "text": "(1) In relation to the termination of a pregnancy in a case where the following conditions are satisfied, that is to say—\n(a) the treatment for termination of the pregnancy was carried out in a hospital controlled by the proper authorities of a body to which this section applies; and\n(b) the pregnant woman had at the time of the treatment a relevant association with that body; and\n(c) the treatment was carried out by a registered medical practitioner or a person who at the time of the treatment was a member of that body appointed as a medical practitioner for that body by the proper authorities of that body,\nthis Act shall have effect as if any reference in section 1 to a registered medical practitioner and to a hospital vested in the Secretary of State included respectively a reference to such a person as is mentioned in paragraph (c) of this subsection and to a hospital controlled as aforesaid, and as if section 2 were omitted.\n(2) The bodies to which this section applies are any force which is a visiting force within the meaning of any of the provisions of Part I of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 and any headquarters within the meaning of the Schedule to the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964; and for the purposes of this section—\n(a) a woman shall be treated as having a relevant association at any time with a body to which this section applies if at that time—\n(i) in the case of such a force as aforesaid, she had a relevant association within the meaning of the said Part I with the force; and\n(ii) in the case of such a headquarters as aforesaid, she was a member of the headquarters or a dependant within the meaning of the Schedule aforesaid of such a member; and\n(b) any reference to a member of a body to which this section applies shall be construed—\n(i) in the case of such a force as aforesaid, as a reference to a member of or of a civilian component of that force within the meaning of the said Part I; and\n(ii) in the case of such a headquarters as aforesaid, as a reference to a member of that headquarters within the meaning of the Schedule aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53, SIF 113:2), ss. 1, 2, Sch. 1 para. 17(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1952 c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1964 c. 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/87/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:49.890700+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}