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Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024

Establishment of safe access zones for protected premises

Section 1: Meaning of “protected premises”

6.This section provides the meaning for “protected premises” for the purposes of this Act. A safe access zone will attach to protected premises under section 2. Protected premises are limited to a building that is, contains or forms part of a hospital and at which abortion services are provided, or place (not being a class of place)(2) approved under section 1(3) of the Abortion Act 1967 (“the 1967 Act”). “Abortion services” are defined in section 15(1) as any treatment for the termination of pregnancy authorised under the 1967 Act.

2

See paragraph 32 for explanation of “class of place”.

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