Point in time view as at 15/07/2011.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, Paragraph 1ZB.
[F11ZB(1)A licence under paragraph 1 cannot authorise any practice designed to secure that any resulting child will be of one sex rather than the other.U.K.
(2)Sub-paragraph (1) does not prevent the authorisation of any testing of embryos that is capable of being authorised under paragraph 1ZA.
(3)Sub-paragraph (1) does not prevent the authorisation of any other practices designed to secure that any resulting child will be of one sex rather than the other in a case where there is a particular risk that a woman will give birth to a child who will have or develop—
(a)a gender-related serious physical or mental disability,
(b)a gender-related serious illness, or
(c)any other gender-related serious medical condition.
(4)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3), a physical or mental disability, illness or other medical condition is gender-related if the Authority is satisfied that—
(a)it affects only one sex, or
(b)it affects one sex significantly more than the other.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 paras. 1ZA-1ZC and cross-headings inserted (1.10.2009) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22), s. 68(2), Sch. 2 para. 3; S.I. 2009/2232, art. 2(v)
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