1967 c. 87, v. 2.
1967 c. 87.4.
(2) In determining whether the continuance of a pregnancy would involve such risk of injury to health as is mentioned in subsection (1), account may be taken of the pregnant woman's actual or reasonably foreseeable environment.
(3) Except as provided by subsection (4), any treatment for the termination of pregnancy must be carried out in a hospital or clinic maintained by the Crown or declared by the Director of Medical and Health Services by notice published in the Gazette to be an approved hospital or clinic for the purposes of this section.
(4) Subsection (3) shall not apply to the termina- tion of a pregnancy by a medical practitioner if two medical practitioners are of the opinion, formed in good faith, that the termination is immediately neces- sary to save the life or to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant
woman.
(5) The Governor in Council may make regula- tions--
(a) requiring any such opinion as is referred to in subsection (1) to be certified by the medical practitioners concerned, in such form and within such time as may be prescribed and requiring the preservation and disposal of certificates made for the purposes of the regulations;
(b) requiring a registered medical practitioner who terminates a pregnancy to give notice of the termination, and such other informa- tion relating to the termination as may be prescribed, to the Director of Medical and Health Services;
(e) prohibiting the disclosure, except to such persons or for such purposes as may be prescribed, of notices given or information furnished pursuant to the regulations.
(6) Subject to subsection (7), no person shall be under any duty, whether by contract or by any statutory or other legal requirement, to participate in any treatment authorized by this section to which he has a conscientious objection, but in any legal
1967 & 87. 1.5(2).
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proceedings the burden of proof of conscientious objection rests on the person claiming to rely on it.
(7) Nothing in subsection (6) shall affect any duty to participate in treatment which is necessary to save the life, or to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health, of a pregnant woman.
(8) For the purposes of sections 46 and 47. any- thing done with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman is unlawfully done unless authorized by virtue of the provisions of this section.
(9) This section shall expire on the 31st day of March, 1974 or on such other date as the Legislative Council may determine by resolution.",
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 29th day of March, 1972.
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared
by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
Clerk to the Legislative Council.