An Act to provide for the termination of certain pregnancies by registered Medical Practitioners and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (4), a pregnancy may be terminated by a registered medical practitioner, -
(a) Where the length of the pregnancy does not exceed twelve weeks if such medical practitioner is, or
(b) Where the length of the pregnancy exceeds twelve weeks but does not exceed twenty weeks, if not less than two registered medical practitioner are,
of opinion, formed in good faith, that -

(i) the continuance of the pregnancy would involve a risk to the life of the pregnant woman or of grave injury to her physical or mental health; or
(ii) there is a substantial risk that if the child were born, it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities to be seriously handicapped

4.  Place where pregnancy may be terminated - No termination of pregnancy shall be made in accordance with this Act at any place other than -
(a) a hospital established or maintained by Government, or
(b) a place for the time being approved for the purpose of this Act by Government.

6. Power to make rules

7. Power to make regulations -

(1) The State Government may, by regulations - (a) require any such opinion as is referred to in sub-section
(2) of section 3 to be certified by a registered medical practitioner or practitioners concerned, in such form and at such time as may be specified in such regulations, and the preservation or disposal of such certificates ; (b) require any registered medical practitioner, who terminates a pregnancy, to give intimation of such termination and such other information relating to the termination as may be specified in such regulations ; (c) prohibit the disclosure, except to such purposes as may be specified in such regulations, of intimations given or information furnished in pursuance of such regulations. (2) The intimation given and the information furnished in pursuance of regulations made by virtue of clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be given or furnished, as the case may be, to the Chief Medical Officer of the State.
(3) Any person who willfully contravenes or willfully fails to comply with the requirements of any regulation made under sub-section (1) shall be liable to be punished with fine, which may extend to one thousand rupees

8. Protection of action taken in good faith -

No suit or legal proceedings shall lie against any registered medical practitioner for any damage caused or likely to be caused by anything, which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act

THE MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY AMENDMENT ACT, 2002
(No. 64 of 2002)
(18th December 2002)

Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2002. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. In section 2 of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act,-34 of 1971, (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), -- (i) in clause (a), for the word “lunatic”, the words ‘mentally ill person” shall be substituted. (ii) For clause (b), the following clause shall be substituted, namely :-
‘(b) “mentally ill person” means a person who is in need of treatment by reason of any mental disorder other than mental retardation;’.
3. In section 3 of the principal Act, in sub-section (4), in clause (a), for the word “lunatic”, the words “mentally ill person” shall be substituted. For section 4 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely :-
4. For section 4 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely :-
“4. No termination of pregnancy shall be made in accordance with this Act at any place other than – (a) a hospital established or maintained by Government, or

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Department of Family Welfare) Notification New Delhi, the 13th June, 2003

G.S.R. 485(E) - In exercise of powers conferred by section 6 of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (34 of 1971), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely :-

1. Short title and commencement –

(1)  These rules may be called the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 2003.
(2)  They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2.  Definitions - In this rules, unless the context otherwise requires,

(a) “Act” means the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (34 of 1971) and the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2002 (64 of 2002).
(b) “Chief Medical Officer of the District” means the Chief Medical Officer of a District, by whatever name called;
(c) “Form” means a form appended to these rules;
(d)“owner” in relation to a place means any person who is the administrative head or otherwise responsible for the working or maintenance of a hospital or place, by whatever name called, where the pregnancy may be terminated under this Act.
(g) “Committee” means a committee constituted at the district level under the proviso to clause (b) of section 4 read Rule 3.

For the purpose of clause (d) of section (2), a registered medical practitioner shall have one or more of the following experience or training in gynaecology and obstetrics, namely;
(a) In the case of a medical practitioner, who was registered in a State Medical Register immediately before the commencement of the Act, experience in the practice of gynaecology and obstetrics for a period of not less than three years;
(b) In the case of a medical practitioner, who is registered in a State Medical Register:-
(i)  if he has completed six months of house surgency in gynaecology and obstetrics; or
(ii) unless the following facilities are provided therein, if he had experience at any hospital for a period of not less than one year in the practice of obstetrics and gynaecology ; or
(b) if he has assisted a registered medical practitioner in the performance of twenty-five cases of medical termination of pregnancy of which at least five  have been performed independently, in a hospital established or maintained or a training institute approved for this purpose by the government.
(i) This training would enable the Registered Medical Practitioner (RMP) to do only 1st Trimester terminations  (up to 12 weeks of gestation).
(ii) For terminations up to twenty weeks the experience or training as prescribed under  sub rules  (a), (b) and  (d) shall apply .
(d) In case of a medical practitioner who has been registered in a State Medical    Register and who holds a post-graduate degree or diploma in gynaecology and obstetrics, the experience or training gained during the course of such degree or diploma.

(1) No place shall be approved under clause (b) of section 4, -
(i) Unless the Government is satisfied that termination of pregnancies may be done therein under safe and hygienic conditions; and
(ii) Unless the following facilities are provided therein, namely: -
In case of first trimester,  that is, up to 12 weeks of pregnancy:-
a gynecology examination/labour table, resuscitation and sterilization equipment, drugs and parental fluid, back up facilities for treatment of shock and facilities for transportation;  and
in case of second trimester, that is,  up to 20 weeks of pregnancy:-
(a) an operation table and instruments for performing abdominal or gynaecological surgery;
(b )  anaesthetic equipment, resuscitation equipment and sterilization equipment; (c) drugs and parental fluids for emergency use, notified by Government of India from time to time.

Explanation :

In the case of termination of early pregnancy up to 7 weeks using RU-486 with Misoprostol, the same may be prescribed by a Registered Medical Practitioner (RMP) as defined under clause (d) of section  2 of the Act and Section 4 of  MTP Rules, at his clinic, provided  such a  Registered Medical Practitioner has access to a place approved under Section 4 of the MTP Act, 1971 read with MTP Amendment Act, 2002 and Rules 5 of the MTP Rules. For the purpose of access, the RMP should display a Certificate to this effect from the owner of the approved place.
(2) Every application for the approval of a place shall be in a Form A and shall be addressed to the Chief Medical Officer of the District.
(3) On receipt of an application under  sub-rule (2), the Chief Medical Officer of the District may  verify any  information contained, in any such application or inspect any such place with a view to satisfying himself that the facilities referred to in sub-rule (1) are provided, and that termination of pregnancies may be made  under safe and hygienic conditions.
(4) Every owner of the place which is inspected by the Chief Medical Officer of the District shall afford all reasonable facilities for the inspection of the place.
(5) The Chief Medical Officer of the District may, if he is satisfied after such verification, enquiry or inspection, as may be considered necessary, that termination of pregnancies may be done under safe and hygienic conditions, at the place, recommended the approval of such place to the Committee.

(6) The Committee may after considering the application and the recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of the District approve such place and issue a certificate of approval in Form B.
(7) The certificate of approval issued by the Committee shall be conspicuously displayed at the place to be easily visible to persons visiting the place.
(8) The place shall  be inspected within 2 months of receiving the application and certificate of approval may be issued within the next 2 months, or in case any deficiency has been noted, within 2 months of the deficiency having been rectified by the applicant. (9)                On the commencement of these rules, a place approved in accordance with the Medical  Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 1975 shall be deemed to have been approved under these Rules.

6. Inspection of a place, -

(1) A place approved under rule 5 may be inspected by the Chief Medical Officer of the District, as often as may be necessary with a view to verify whether termination of pregnancies is being done therein under safe and hygienic conditions.
(2) If the Chief Medical Officer has reason to believe that there has been death of, or injury to, a pregnant woman at the place or that termination of pregnancies is not being done at the place under safe and hygienic conditions, he may call for any information or may seize any article, medicine, ampule, admission register or other document, maintained, kept or found at the place.
(3) The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), relating to seizure shall, so far as it may , apply to seizure made under sub-rule (2).

6. Inspection of a place, -

(1) A place approved under rule 5 may be inspected by the Chief Medical Officer of the District, as often as may be necessary with a view to verify whether termination of pregnancies is being done therein under safe and hygienic conditions. (2) If the Chief Medical Officer has reason to believe that there has been death of, or injury to, a pregnant woman at the place or that termination of pregnancies is not being done at the place under safe and hygienic conditions, he may call for any information or may seize any article, medicine, ampule, admission register or other document, maintained, kept or found at the place. (3) The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), relating to seizure shall, so far as it may , apply to seizure made under sub-rule (2).

6.Cancellation or suspension of certificate of approval, -

(1) If, after inspection of any place approved under rule 5, the Chief Medical Officer of the District is satisfied that the facilities specified in rule 5 are not being properly maintained therein and the termination of pregnancy at such place cannot be made under safe and hygienic conditions, he shall make a report of the fact to the Committee giving the detail of the deficiencies or defects found at the place and the committee may, if it is satisfied, suspend or cancel the approval provided that the committee shall give an opportunity of making representation to the owner of the place before the certificate issued under rule 5 is cancelled.
(2) Where a certificate issued under rule 5 is cancelled  the owner of the place may make such additions or improvements in the place and there after,  he may make  an application to the Committee for grant of approval under rule 5.
(3) In the event of suspension of a certificate, of approval, the place shall not be deemed to be an approved place during the suspension for the purposes of termination of pregnancy from the date of communication of the order of such suspension.

7.Review :-

(1) The owner of a place, who is aggrieved by an order made under rule 7, may make an application for review of the order to the Government within a period of sixty days from the date of such order:
Provided that the Government may condone  any delay in case it is satisfied that applicant was prevented by sufficient cause to make application within time. 
(2) The Government may, after giving the owner an opportunity of being heard, confirm, modify or reverse the order.

8. Form of consent, -

The consent referred to in sub-section (4) of section 3 shall be given in Form C.

9. Repeal and saving, -

The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 1975, are hereby repealed except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such repeal.

FORM A ( See sub-rule (2) of rule 5 )

Form of application for the approval of a place under clause (b) of section 4
Category of approved place:
A Pregnancy can be terminated upto 12 weeks    
B Pregnancy can be terminated upto 20 weeks    
1. Name of the place ( in capital letters )
2. Address in full
3. Non-Government/Private/Nursing Home/Other Institutions
4. State, if the following facilities are available at the place
Category A
i) Gynecological examination / labour table.
ii) Resuscitation equipment.
iii) Sterilization equipment.
iv) Facilities for treatment of shock, including emergency drugs.
v)  Facilities for transportation, if required.
Category B
(ii) An operation table and Instruments for performing abdominal or gynaecological surgery.
(iii) Drugs and parental fluid in sufficient supply for emergency cases.
(iv) Anaesthetic equipment, resuscitation equipment and sterilization equipment.
Place    :
Date     :
                                                                                                                                                                                 Signature of the owner of the place

FORM B ( See sub-rule (6) of rule 5 )

Certificate of approval.
The place described below is hereby approved for the purpose of the Medical termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 ( 34 of 1971).
            AS READ WITHIN  UPTO-------------WEEKS
Name of the Place
Address and other descriptions
Name of the owner
Place    :
Date     :
to the Government of the ______________________________

FORM C ( See rule 8 ) I _____________________________________________ daughter/wife of _____________________________________________ aged about __________ years of __________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ( here state the permanent address) at present residing at _____________________________________________________________________ do hereby give my consent to the termination of my pregnancy at ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ ( State the name of place where the pregnancy is to be terminated) Place : Date : Signature ( To be filled in by guardian where the woman is a mentally ill person or minor ) I_____________________________________________ son/daughter/wife of __________________________ aged about __________ years of __________________________________________________ at present residing at ( Permanent address ) __________ _________________________________________________________________________________ do hereby give my consent to the termination of the pregnancy of my ward _______________________________ who is a minor/lunatic at ___________________________________________________ ( place of termination of my pregnancy) Place : Date : Signature

MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY REGULATIONS, 2003 MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE ( Department of Family Planning ) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 13th June April, 2003

G.S.R. 486 (E) – In exercise of powers conferred by section 7 of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (34 of 1971), the Central Government hereby makes the following regulations, namely ;

1.  Short title, extent and commencement -

(1) These regulations may be called the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Regulations, 2003. (2) They extend to all the Union territories. (1) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

(a)“Act” means the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (34 of 1971)
(b)“Admission Register” means the register maintained under regulation 5;
(c)Chief Medical Officer of the District means the Chief Medical Officer of the District by whatever name called.
(d)“Form” means a form appended to these regulations;
(e)“hospital” means a hospital established or maintained by the Central Government or the Government of Union territory ;
(f)“section” means a section of the Act.

3. Form of certifying opinion or opinions, -

(1) Where one registered medical practitioner forms or not less than two registered medical practitioners form such opinion as is referred to in sub section (2) of section 3 or 5, he or she shall certify such opinion in Form I.
(2) Every registered medical practitioner who terminates any pregnancy shall, within three hours from the termination of the pregnancy certify such termination in Form I.

(1) The consent given by a pregnant woman for the termination of her pregnancy, together with the certified opinion recorded under section 3 oR section 5, as the case may be and the intimation of termination of pregnancy shall be placed in an envelope which shall be sealed by the registered medical practitioner or practitioners by whom such termination of pregnancy was performed and until that envelope is sent to the head of the hospital or owner of the approved place or the Chief Medical Officer of the State, it shall be kept in the safe custody of he concerned registered medical practitioner or practitioners, as the case may be.
(2)On every envelope referred to in sub-regulation (1), pertaining to the termination of pregnancy under section 3, there shall be noted the serial number assigned to the pregnant woman in the Admission Register and the name of the registered medical practitioner or practitioners by whom the pregnancy was terminated and such envelope shall be marked “SECRET”.
(3) Every envelope referred to in sub-regulation (2) shall be sent immediately after the termination of the pregnancy to the head of the hospital or owner of the approved place where the pregnancy was terminated. (4) On receipt of the envelope referred to in sub-regulation (3), the head of the hospital or owner of the approved place shall arrange to keep the same in safe custody. (5) Every head of the hospital or owner of the approved place shall send to the Chief Medical Officer of the Sate, IN form II a monthly statement of cases where medical termination of pregnancy has been done. (6) On every envelope referred to in sub-regulation (1), pertaining to the termination of pregnancy under section 5, there shall be noted the name and address of the registered medical practitioner by whom the pregnancy was terminated and the date on which the pregnancy was terminated and such envelope shall be marked “SECRET”.

(1) every head of the hospital or owner of the approved place shall maintain a register in form III for recording there in the details of the admissions of women for the termination of their pregnancies and keep such register for a period of five years from the end of the calendar year it relates to.
(2) The entries in the Admission Register shall be made serially and a fresh serial shall be started at the commencement of each calendar year and the serial number of the particular year shall be distinguished from the serial number of other years by mentioning the year against the serial number, for example, serial number 5 of 1972 and serial number 5 of 1973 shall be mentioned as 5/1972 and 5/1973.
(3) Admission Register shall be a secret document and the information contained therein as to the name and other particulars of the pregnant woman shall not be disclosed to any person.

The Admission Register shall be kept in the safe custody of the head of the hospital or owner of the approved place, or by any person authorized by such head or owner and save as otherwise provided in sub-regulation (5) of regulation 4 shall not be open for inspection by any person except under the authority of law :- Provided that the registered medical practitioner on the application of an employed woman whose pregnancy has been terminated, grant a certificate for the purpose of enabling her to obtain leave from her employer ; Provided further that any such employer shall not disclose this information to any other person.

No entry shall be made in any case-sheet, operation theater register, follow-up card or any other document or register other than the admission Register maintained at any hospital or approved place indicating therein the name of the pregnant woman and reference to the pregnant woman shall be made therein by the serial number assigned to the woman in the Admission Register

FORM I [ See Regulation 3 ]

I______________________________________________________________________________________________ ( Name and qualifications of the Registered Medical practitioner in block letters ) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ ( Full address of the Registered Medical practitioner ) I______________________________________________________________________________________________ ( Name and qualifications of the Registered Medical practitioner in block letters ) ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ( Full address of the Registered Medical practitioner ) hereby certify that *I/We am/are of opinion, formed in good faith, that it is necessary to terminate the pregnancy of _______________________________________________________________________________________________ ( Full name of pregnant women in block letters ) resident of ________________________________________________________________________ ( Full address of pregnant women in block letters ) for the reasons given below**. * I/We hereby give intimation that *I/We terminated the pregnancy of the woman referred to above who bears the serial no. _______________ in the Admission Register of the hospital/approved place. Signature of the registered Medical Practitioner Signature of the registered Medical Practitioners Place : Date : *Strike out whichever is not applicable, ** of the reasons specified items (i) to (v) write the one which is appropriate. (i) in order to save the life of the pregnant women, (ii) in order to prevent grave injury to the physical and mental health of the pregnant women, (iii) in view of the substantial risk that if the child was born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped, (iv) as the pregnancy is alleged by pregnant women to have been caused by rape, (v) as the pregnancy has occurred as result of failure of any contraceptive device or methods used by married woman or her husband for the purpose of limiting the number of children Note : Account may be taken of the pregnant women’s actual or reasonably foreseeable environment in determining whether the continuance of her pregnancy would involve a grave injury to her physical or mental health. Place : Date : Signature of the Registered Medical Practitioner Signature of the Registered Medical Practitioners

FORM II
[ See Regulation 4(5) ]

1. Name of the State
2. Name of the Hospital/approved place
3. Duration of pregnancy ( give total No. only )
(a) Up to 12 weeks.
(b) Between 12 - 20 weeks
4. Religion of woman
(a) Hindu
(b) Muslim
(c) Christian
(d) Others
(e) Total
5. Termination with acceptance of contraception.
(a) Sterlisation.
(b) I.U.D.
6. Reasons for termination :
( give total number under each sub-head )
(a) Danger to life of the pregnant woman.
(b) Grave injury to the physical health of the pregnant woman.
(c) Grave injury to the mental health of the pregnant woman.
(d) Pregnancy caused by rape.
(e) Substantial risk that if the child was born, it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.
(f) Failure of any contraceptive device or method.
Signature of the Officer Incharge with Date

( To be destroyed on the expiry of five years from the dated of the last entry in the Register )