Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018
PART 2 Termination of pregnancy | ||
Definitions (Part 2) | ||
8. In this Part— | ||
“appropriate medical practitioner”, in relation to a medical practitioner and his or her assessment of the risk to the life, or of serious harm to the health, of a pregnant woman, means a medical practitioner appropriate to the care or treatment of the woman in respect of the risk; | ||
“Executive” means the Health Service Executive; | ||
“health” means physical or mental health; | ||
“medical specialty” means a medical specialty recognised by the Medical Council under section 89 of the Act of 2007; | ||
“obstetrician” means an obstetrician and gynaecologist; | ||
“obstetrician and gynaecologist” means a medical practitioner who is registered in the Specialist Division of the register under the medical specialty of “Obstetrics and Gynaecology”; | ||
“relevant decision” shall be construed in accordance with section 13 ; | ||
“relevant specialty”, in relation to a medical practitioner and his or her assessment of the presence of a condition affecting a foetus that is likely to lead to the death of the foetus either before, or within 28 days of, birth, means a medical specialty— | ||
(a) in respect of which the medical practitioner is registered in the Specialist Division of the register, and | ||
(b) relevant to the diagnosis, care or treatment of such a condition; | ||
“review”, in relation to a relevant decision, means a review under section 16 ; | ||
“review committee”, in relation to a relevant decision, means the committee established under section 15 (1) to review that decision; | ||
“review panel” means the panel established under section 14 (1); | ||
“ section 9 certification” means a certification referred to in section 9 (3) or, as the case may be, a certification pursuant to section 16 (2) as to the matters referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection; | ||
“ section 10 certification” means a certification referred to in section 10 (2); | ||
“ section 11 certification” means a certification referred to in section 11 (3) or, as the case may be, a certification pursuant to section 16 (2) as to the matters referred to in paragraph (b) of that subsection; | ||
“ section 12 certification” means a certification referred to in section 12 (2); | ||
“viability” means the point in a pregnancy at which, in the reasonable opinion of a medical practitioner, the foetus is capable of survival outside the uterus without extraordinary life-sustaining measures. |