Termination of Pregnancy Regulations 2022 (SA)

South Australia Termination of Pregnancy Regulations 2022 under the Termination of Pregnancy Act 2021

Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Interpretation 4 Prescribed hospitals 5 Annual report 6 Provision of information by hospitals etc to Chief Executive 7 Transitional provision Schedule 1—Prescribed hospitals Schedule 2—Obligation to report information on pregnancy terminations to Chief Executive Legislative history

1—Short title These regulations may be cited as the Termination of Pregnancy Regulations 2022. 2—Commencement These regulations come into operation on the day on which the Termination of Pregnancy Act 2021 comes into operation. 3—Interpretation In these regulations— Act means the Termination of Pregnancy Act 2021. 4—Prescribed hospitals The hospitals listed in Schedule 1 are prescribed for the purposes of the definition of prescribed hospital in section 3 of the Act. 5—Annual report For the purposes of section 20(2)(b) of the Act, the following information (including data and statistics) relating to terminations performed in the calendar year is prescribed: (a) the number of terminations; (b) the number of terminations that result in complications or adverse outcomes for the pregnant person; (c) the different methods of terminations used and the number of terminations performed using each method; (d) for a termination performed on a person who is more than 22 weeks and 6 days pregnant—the circumstances under section 6(1) of the Act relating to the performance of the termination; (e) the locations in the State of terminations performed and the regions of the State in which the persons on whom those terminations were performed ordinarily reside. 6—Provision of information by hospitals etc to Chief Executive (1) If a pregnancy is terminated at a hospital or private day procedure centre during a month, the chief executive officer of that hospital or private day procedure centre (as the case requires) must, within 20 days of the end of the month, provide the information specified in Schedule 2 to the Chief Executive. (2) A registered health practitioner who performs a pregnancy termination during a month (other than a termination referred to in subregulation (1)) must, within 20 days of the end of the month, provide the information specified in Schedule 2 to the Chief Executive. (3) For the purposes of section 19(2)(e) of the Act, information provided to the Chief Executive under this regulation may be disclosed in statistical form, provided that such disclosure does not reveal the identity of any person who has had a termination or any registered health practitioner who has performed a termination. (4) In this regulation— Chief Executive has the same meaning as in section 19 of the Act. 7—Transitional provision Pursuant to section 21(3)(d) of the Act, information obtained under regulations made under section 82A(4)(b) of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (as in force immediately before the repeal of that section by Schedule 1 clause 3 of the Act) will be taken to be information provided under regulation 6 (and, to avoid doubt, section 19 of the Act applies to that information).