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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnerships-marriages-and-deaths-registration-etc-act-2019/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2019/12",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnerships-marriages-and-deaths-registration-etc-act-2019",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Report on registration of pregnancy loss",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must make arrangements for the preparation of a report on whether, and if so how, the law ought to be changed to require or permit the registration of pregnancy losses which cannot be registered as still-births under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953.\n(2) For the purposes of this section, a pregnancy loss occurs when a person's pregnancy ends and, after being parted from the person, the foetus does not breathe or show any other sign of life.\n(3) In the case of a multiple pregnancy, subsection (2) applies as if there were a separate pregnancy in respect of each foetus.\n(4) The Secretary of State must publish the report prepared under this section.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/12/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:14.255134+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."
}