{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-act-1967/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-act-1967/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/87",
  "legislation_title": "Abortion Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-act-1967",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act, the following expressions have meanings hereby assigned to them:—\n“the law relating to abortion” means sections 58 and 59 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, and any rule of law relating to the procurement of abortion;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definition repealed by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53, SIF 113:2), s. 25(4), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1861 c. 100."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/87/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:49.890700+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}