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Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1996 (Act No. 92 of 1996)

7. Notification and keeping of records

 

(1) Any medical practitioner, or a registered midwife or registered nurse who has completed the prescribed training course, who terminates a pregnancy in terms of section 2(1)(a) or (b), shall record the prescribed information in the prescribed manner and give notice thereof to the person referred to in subsection (2).

 

(2) The person in charge of a facility referred to in section 3 or a person designated for such purpose, shall be notified as prescribed of every termination of a pregnancy carried out in that facility.

 

(3) The person in charge of a facility referred to in section 3, shall, within one month of the termination of a pregnancy at such facility, collate the prescribed information and forward it by registered post confidentially to the relevant Head of Department: Provided that the name and address of a woman who has requested or obtained a termination of pregnancy, shall not be included in the prescribed information.

[Words preceding the proviso to subsection (3) substituted by section 3(a) of Act No. 1 of 2008]

 

(4) The Head of Department shall—
(a) keep record of the prescribed information which he or she receives in terms of subsection (3); and
(b) submit to the Director-General the information contemplated in paragraph (a) every six months.

[Subsection (4) substituted by section 3(b) of Act No. 1 of 2008]

 

(5) The identity of a woman who has requested or obtained a termination of pregnancy shall remain confidential at all times unless she herself chooses to disclose that information.