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Destruction of Admission Register and other Papers - Save as otherwise directed by the Chief Secretary to the Union territory Administration or for in relation to any proceeding pending before him, as directed by a District Judge or a Magistrate of the First Class, every Admission Register shall be destroyed on the expiry of a period of five years from the date of the last entry in that Register and other papers on the expiry of a period of three years from the date of termination of the pregnancy concerned. "SECRET" 12 FORM I (See Regulation 3) ...................................................................................................................................................... (Name and qualifications of the Registered Medical Practitioner in block letters) ...................................................................................................................................................... (Full address of the Registered Medical Practitioner in block letters) ...................................................................................................................................................... (Name and qualifications of the Registered Medical Practitioner in block letter) ...................................................................................................................................................... (Full address of the Registered Medical Practitioner in block letters) 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 woman in block letters) resident of ......................................................................... (Full address of woman 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. Place : Date : Signature of Registered Medical Practitioner Signatures of Registered Medical Practitioners *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 woman. (ii) In order to prevent grave injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman. (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 woman to have been caused by rape. (v) As the pregnancy has occurred as a 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 woman's actual or reasonably foreseeable environment in determining whether the Continuance of a pregnancy would involve a grave injury to her physical or mental health. Place : Date : Signature of the Registered Medical Practitioner Signatures of the Registered Medical Practitioners 13 FORM II [See Regulation 4 (5)]