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(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.
(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.
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