3. Medical termination of pregnancy
(1)
Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall not be guilty of an offence under the law relating to abortion when a pregnancy is terminated by a registered medical practitioner if he and two other registered medical practitioners, one of whom has specialised in the branch of medicine in which the patient is specifically required to be examined before a conclusion could be reached that the abortion should be recommended, are of the opinion, formed in good faith—
(a)
that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve—
(i)
risk to the life of the pregnant woman; or
(ii)
risk of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman; or
(iii)
risk of injury to the physical or mental health of any existing children of the pregnant woman;
greater than if the pregnancy were terminated; or
(b)
that there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.
(2)
In determining whether the continuance of a pregnancy would involve such risk as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1), account may be taken of the pregnant woman's actual or reasonably foreseeable environment or of her age.
(3)
Except as provided by subsection (4), any treatment for the termination of pregnancy must be carried out in a hospital.
(4)
Subsection (3) and so much of subsection (1) as relates to the opinion of two registered medical practitioners, shall not apply to the termination of a pregnancy by a registered medical practitioner in a case where he is of the opinion, formed in good faith, that the termination of pregnancy is immediately necessary to save the life or to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman.