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2.—(1) In the circumstances specified in paragraph (2) below, section 14(3) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (statutory storage period in respect of gametes) shall have effect in respect of any gametes as if for ten years there were substituted the appropriate period specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.
(2) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (1) are that the gametes were provided by a person—
(a)whose fertility since providing them has or is likely to become, in the written opinion of a registered medical practitioner, significantly impaired,
(b)who was aged under 45 on the date on which the gametes were provided, and
(c)who does not consent to the gametes' being used for the purpose of providing treatment services to persons other than that person, or that person and another together, and never has so consented while the gametes were ones to which this regulation applied.
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