Part 2Parenthood in cases involving assisted reproduction
General
I157Repeals and transitional provision relating to Part 2
1
Sections 33 to 48 have effect only in relation to children carried by women as a result of the placing in them of embryos or of sperm and eggs, or their artificial insemination (as the case may be), after the commencement of those sections.
2
Sections 27 to 29 of the 1990 Act (which relate to status) do not have effect in relation to children carried by women as a result of the placing in them of embryos or of sperm and eggs, or their artificial insemination (as the case may be), after the commencement of sections 33 to 48.
3
Section 30 of the 1990 Act (parental orders in favour of gamete donors) ceases to have effect.
4
Subsection (3) does not affect the validity of any order made under section 30 of the 1990 Act before the coming into force of that subsection.
I258Interpretation of Part 2
1
In this Part “enactment” means an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under—
a
an Act of Parliament,
b
an Act of the Scottish Parliament,
c
a Measure or Act of the National Assembly for Wales, or
d
Northern Ireland legislation.
2
For the purposes of this Part, two persons are within prohibited degrees of relationship if one is the other's parent, grandparent, sister, brother, aunt or uncle; and in this subsection references to relationships—
a
are to relationships of the full blood or half blood or, in the case of an adopted person, such of those relationships as would subsist but for adoption, and
b
include the relationship of a child with his adoptive, or former adoptive, parents,
but do not include any other adoptive relationships.
3
Other expressions used in this Part and in the 1990 Act have the same meaning in this Part as in that Act.