Blood donation28
1
This regulation applies to any person operating a service for the collection and distribution of human blood for the purposes of medical services (“a blood service”).
2
Subject to paragraph (3), it is unlawful for a person operating a blood service to discriminate against a person on grounds of sexual orientation in the way it affords him access to any facility for the donation of his blood.
3
Nothing in this regulation shall make it unlawful for a person operating a blood service to refuse to accept a donation of a person’s blood where that refusal is determined by an assessment of risk to the public based on—
a
clinical, epidemiological and other data which was obtained from a source on which it was reasonable to rely, and
b
the refusal is reasonable having regard to that data, and any other relevant factors.