Whether there are guidelines in the NHS in Scotland regarding time limits for the termination of pregnancies in order to ensure uniformity …

The time limits for the termination of pregnancies are laid down clearly by the Abortion Act 1967 as amended by section 37 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. Both these Acts are UK legislation and both are reserved to Westminster. An additional time limit for the medical termination of pregnancy was effectively imposed by the UK Medicines Control Agency in 1991 when it granted a product licence for an antiprogesterone drug to be used in the termination of pregnancy up to nine weeks gestation.Health boards have a duty to provide suitable treatment for the termination of the pregnancy of any resident woman who meets the requirements of the Abortion Act. All health boards are aware of the time limits.