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Use of gametes for treatment of othersU.K.

5(1)A person’s gametes must not be used for the purposes of treatment services [F1or non-medical fertility services] unless there is an effective consent by that person to their being so used and they are used in accordance with the terms of the consent.U.K.

(2)A person’s gametes must not be received for use for those purposes unless there is an effective consent by that person to their being so used.

(3)This paragraph does not apply to the use of a person’s gametes for the purpose of that person, or that person and another together, receiving treatment services.

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I1Schedule 3 para. 5 wholly in force at 1.8.1991 see s. 49(2) and S.I. 1991/1400, art. 2(2)

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