SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17U.K.Storage of gametes and embryos

PART 2U.K.Transitional provision

Time for first renewal of consentU.K.

16(1)This paragraph applies in relation to the storage of an embryo under a pre-commencement embryo storage licence where the statutory storage period applicable immediately before the commencement day was provided for by—

(a)regulation 3, 3A, 5 or 6 of the 2009 Regulations, or

(b)regulation 3 of the 2020 Regulations.

(2)For the purposes of paragraph 11C of Schedule 3 to the 1990 Act (as inserted by paragraph 7 of this Schedule), paragraph 11D(1)(a) of that Schedule has effect as if the reference to the period of 10 years beginning with the day on which the embryo was first placed in storage were a reference to the period which—

(a)begins with the day on which the embryo was first so placed, and

(b)ends at the end of the statutory storage period referred to in sub-paragraph (1).

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 17 para. 16 in force at 1.7.2022, see s. 186(3)