Part 1

Amendments of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990

Mitochondrial donation

Mitochondrial donation
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After section 35 of the 1990 Act insert—

Mitochondrial donation

Mitochondrial donation
35A
1
Regulations may provide for any of the relevant provisions to have effect subject to specified modifications in relation to cases where—
a
an egg which is a permitted egg for the purposes of section 3(2) by virtue of regulations made under section 3ZA(5), or
b
an embryo which is a permitted embryo for those purposes by virtue of such regulations,
has been created from material provided by two women.
2
In this section “the relevant provisions” means—
a
the following provisions of this Act—
i
section 13(6C) (information whose provision to prospective parents is required by licence condition),
ii
section 31 (register of information),
iii
sections 31ZA to 31ZE (provision of information), and
iv
Schedule 3 (consents to use or storage of gametes, embryos or human admixed embryos etc.), and
b
section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (parental orders).