Part 2Parenthood in cases involving assisted reproduction

General

I158Interpretation 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.