{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-amendment-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2002/2879",
  "legislation_title": "The Abortion (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-amendment-wales-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2",
  "text": "For regulation 2 (interpretation ) of the principal Regulations substitute—\n“2 In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Abortion Act 1967;\n“electronic communication” has the same meaning as in section 15 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000;\n“practitioner” means a registered medical practitioner;\n“solicitor” means a person qualified to act as a solicitor as provided by section 1 of the Solicitors Act 1974.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1974 c. 47."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/2879/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:53.528655+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."
}