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Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act 2003

Section 2: Consequential and supplementary provision

16.Subsection (1) of section 2 of the Act provides that the Schedule (which contains consequential amendments) has effect.

17.Subsection (2) disapplies the two-year rule contained in section 1(4) of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 (which prohibits a Regulatory Reform Order being made in respect of legislation amended by or under an Act of Parliament in the previous 2 years) to the amendments made by this Act to the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953.

18.Subsection (3) defines the term “relevant calculation” for the purpose of disapplying section 1(4) of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001.

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