Regulation of Information (Services Outside the State For Termination of Pregnancies) Act, 1995

Conditions governing the giving of Act information at meetings or in certain publications.

3.—(1) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), it shall not be lawful to publish or procure the publication of Act information—

(i) orally at a meeting to which the public have access whether upon payment or free of charge,

(ii) in a book, newspaper, journal, magazine, leaflet or pamphlet, or any other document,

(iii) in a film or a recording (whether of sound or images or both),

(iv) by means of radio or television, or

(v) by any other means to the public,

unless—

(I) if the information relates to services provided in a particular place or to persons providing them in a particular place—

(A) the information relates only to services which are lawfully available in that place and to persons who, in providing them, are acting lawfully in that place, and

(B) the information and the method and manner of its publication are in compliance with the law of that place,

and

(II) the information is truthful and objective and does not advocate or promote, and is not accompanied by any advocacy or promotion of, the termination of pregnancy.

(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to publication, or the procuring of publication, to which section 4 applies.

(2) It shall not be lawful to sell or offer or distribute for sale or invite offers to buy, or distribute free of charge, anything in which Act information is published in contravention of subsection (1).

(3) It shall not be lawful to show or play a film or a recording (whether of sound or images or both) in relation to which there is a contravention of subsection (1) at a place to which the public have access whether upon payment or free of charge.