# Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019, Section 3: Report on registration of pregnancy loss

Extent: E+W

(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.
(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.
(3) In the case of a multiple pregnancy, subsection (2) applies as if there were a separate pregnancy in respect of each foetus.
(4) The Secretary of State must publish the report prepared under this section.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/12/section/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnerships-marriages-and-deaths-registration-etc-act-2019/section-3
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