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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-regulations-1991/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-regulations-1991/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/499",
  "legislation_title": "The Abortion Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notice of termination of pregnancy and information relating to the termination",
  "text": "(1) Any practitioner who terminates a pregnancy in England or Wales shall give to the appropriate Chief Medical Officer—\n(a) notice of the termination, and\n(b) such other information relating to the termination as is specified in the form set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations,\nand shall do so by sending them to him in a sealed envelope within 7 days of the termination.\n(2) The appropriate Chief Medical Officer is—\n(a) where the pregnancy was terminated in England, the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health, Richmond House, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2NS; or\n(b) where the pregnancy was terminated in Wales, the Chief Medical Officer of the Welsh Office, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF1 3NQ.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2008/1338",
      "affecting_title": "The Abortion (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2018/378",
      "affecting_title": "The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) Order 2018"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2018/378",
      "affecting_title": "The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) Order 2018"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2022/811",
      "affecting_title": "The Abortion (Amendment) Regulations 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/887",
      "affecting_title": "The Abortion (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2002/887",
      "affecting_title": "The Abortion (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/2879",
      "affecting_title": "The Abortion (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/2879",
      "affecting_title": "The Abortion (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/499/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:49:33.542969+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."
}