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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-amendment-regulations-2008/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-amendment-regulations-2008/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/735",
  "legislation_title": "The Abortion (Amendment) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend regulation 5 of the Abortion Regulations 1991 by substituting regulation 5(a)(ii), in order to reflect the changes made by the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 which establishes an independent Statistics Board under section 1, which is responsible for the statistical functions previously carried out by the Registrar General through its administrative arm, the Office of National Statistics. That Act also makes provision under section 5 for the appointment of the National Statistician.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/735/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:33:23.541840+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."
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