Legislation – The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Statutory Storage Period for Embryos and Gametes) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020

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Introduction

PART 1

General

1 Citation and coming into force

2 Interpretation

PART 2

Extension of the statutory storage period for embryos and gametes

3 Extension of the statutory storage period for embryos

4 Extension of the statutory storage period for gametes

PART 3

Amendments to the 2009 Regulations

5 The 2009 Regulations are amended in accordance with regulations 6…

6 Amendment of regulation 2 (interpretation)

7 Amendment of regulation 3 (extension of statutory storage period for premature infertility)

8 New regulation 3A (extension of statutory storage period for premature infertility for a reason relating to coronavirus)

9 Amendment of regulation 4 (extension of statutory storage period for premature infertility)

10 New regulation 4A (extension of statutory storage period for premature infertility for a reason relating to coronavirus)

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Explanatory note

PART 2

Extension of the statutory storage period for embryos and gametes

Extension of the statutory storage period for gametes4.

(1)

Subject to regulations 4 and 4A of the 2009 Regulations, in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2), section 14(3) of the Act (conditions of storage licences) shall have effect as if for ten years there were substituted twelve years.

(2)

The circumstances referred to in paragraph (1) are that—

(a)

the gamete in question is, on 1st July 2020, being stored on premises to which a licence under paragraph 1, 2 or 3 of Schedule 2 to the Act relates; and

(b)

the person who provided the gamete has consented in writing, whether before, on or after 1st July 2020, to the gamete being stored for at least twelve years.