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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abortion-scotland-regulations-1991/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/460",
  "legislation_title": "The Abortion (Scotland) Regulations 1991",
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  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notice of termination of pregnancy and information relating to the termination",
  "text": "Any practitioner who terminates a pregnancy in Scotland shall within 7 days of the termination give to the Chief Medical Officer of the Scottish Home and Health Department—\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 by post or delivering them in a sealed envelope within 7 days of the termination.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2021/457",
      "affecting_title": "The Abortion (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1042",
      "affecting_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.1) Order 1999"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/460/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:49:59.966087+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."
}