Treatment services and storage licences: the person responsible
33.—(1) This regulation applies to any case where—
(a)immediately before the initial commencement date a person was carrying on activities pursuant to—
(i)a licence under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act, or
(ii)a licence under paragraph 2 of that Schedule authorising the storage of gametes or embryos intended for human application, and
(b)the person responsible in respect of such licence does not meet the requirement specified in section 16(2)(c)(i) of the 1990 Act, as inserted by regulation 19.
(2) That requirement does not prevent the person mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) from continuing to act as the responsible person in relation to—
(a)the activities authorised by the licence, and
(b)where before the initial commencement date persons to whom the licence applies were using gametes for the purpose of providing basic partner treatment services, the continued use of gametes for that purpose if that use is authorised by a variation of the licence taking effect on the main commencement date,
for a period of six months beginning with the main commencement date.