Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018
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Notifications | ||
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20. (1) Where a termination of pregnancy is carried out in accordance with section 9 , 10 , 11 or 12 , the medical practitioner who carried out the termination of pregnancy shall— | ||
(a) keep, or cause to be kept, a record, in the prescribed form and manner, of— | ||
(i) the carrying out of the termination of pregnancy, and | ||
(ii) the information specified in subsection (2), | ||
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(b) not later than 28 days after the termination of pregnancy has been carried out, forward, or cause to be forwarded, a copy of that record, or such part of that record as may be prescribed, to the Minister in such manner as may be prescribed. | ||
(2) The following information is specified for the purposes of subsection (1)(a)(ii): | ||
(a) the Medical Council registration number attached to the registration of the medical practitioner who carried out the termination of pregnancy; | ||
(b) whether the termination of pregnancy was carried out pursuant to a section 9 certification, section 10 certification, section 11 certification or section 12 certification and the Medical Council registration number attached to the registration of the medical practitioner, or each of the medical practitioners, who made the certification concerned; | ||
(c) the county of residence, or in the case of a woman who resides outside the State, the place of residence, of the pregnant woman in respect of whom the termination of pregnancy was carried out; | ||
(d) the date on which the termination of pregnancy was carried out. | ||
(3) The Minister shall, not later than 30 June in each year, prepare a report on the notifications received by him or her under this section during the immediately preceding year, and shall, as soon as may be after preparing the report, cause copies of the report to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas. | ||
(4) The Minister shall arrange for a report laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas in accordance with subsection (3) to be published in such form and manner as he or she thinks appropriate as soon as practicable after copies of the report are so laid. | ||
(5) In preparing a report under this section, the Minister shall exclude from the report information that identifies, or that could reasonably lead to the identification of— | ||
(a) a medical practitioner referred to in subsection (2)(a) or (b), and | ||
(b) a woman referred to in subsection (2)(c). | ||
(6) In this section, “notification” means a copy of a record, or a part thereof, that is forwarded or caused to be forwarded to the Minister under subsection (1). |