Activities governed by the Act
3ZAF1Permitted eggs, permitted sperm and permitted embryos
1
This section has effect for the interpretation of section 3(2).
2
A permitted egg is one—
a
which has been produced by or extracted from the ovaries of a woman, and
b
whose nuclear or mitochondrial DNA has not been altered.
3
Permitted sperm are sperm—
a
which have been produced by or extracted from the testes of a man, and
b
whose nuclear or mitochondrial DNA has not been altered.
4
An embryo is a permitted embryo if—
a
it has been created by the fertilisation of a permitted egg by permitted sperm,
b
no nuclear or mitochondrial DNA of any cell of the embryo has been altered, and
c
no cell has been added to it other than by division of the embryo's own cells.
5
Regulations may provide that—
a
an egg can be a permitted egg, or
b
an embryo can be a permitted embryo,
even though the egg or embryo has had applied to it in prescribed circumstances a prescribed process designed to prevent the transmission of serious mitochondrial disease.
6
In this section—
a
“woman” and “man” include respectively a girl and a boy (from birth), and
b
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations.