Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990

36Amendment of Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985

(1)After section 1 of the [1985 c. 49.] Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 there is inserted—

1ASurrogacy arrangements unenforceable

No surrogacy arrangement is enforceable by or against any of the persons making it.

(2)In section 1 of that Act (meaning of “surrogate mother”, etc.)—

(a)in subsection (6), for “or, as the case may be, embryo insertion” there is substituted “or of the placing in her of an embryo, of an egg in the process of fertilisation or of sperm and eggs, as the case may be,”, and

(b)in subsection (9), the words from “and whether” to the end are repealed.