Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013
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Appropriate institutions for purposes of Act | ||
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3. (1) The Minister may by order, where he or she thinks it appropriate for the purposes of this Act, specify any institution managed by the Executive, or by another person pursuant to an arrangement entered into under section 38 of the Health Act 2004 — | ||
(a) at which in-patient services are provided under the direction of medical practitioners from not less than 3 medical specialities and which is wholly or partly used for the care and treatment of women in relation to any one or more of the following: | ||
(i) pregnancy; | ||
(ii) childbirth; | ||
(iii) post-partum care, | ||
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(b) at which in-patient services (including intensive and critical care services) are provided under the direction of medical practitioners from not less than 7 medical specialities, | ||
and any institution so specified shall be an appropriate institution for the purposes of this Act. | ||
(2) Every order made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder. |