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26Mitochondrial donationU.K.
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After section 35 of the 1990 Act insert—
“Mitochondrial donationU.K.
35AMitochondrial donation
(1)Regulations may provide for any of the relevant provisions to have effect subject to specified modifications in relation to cases where—
(a)an egg which is a permitted egg for the purposes of section 3(2) by virtue of regulations made under section 3ZA(5), or
(b)an embryo which is a permitted embryo for those purposes by virtue of such regulations,
has been created from material provided by two women.
(2)In this section “the relevant provisions” means—
(a)the following provisions of this Act—
(i)section 13(6C) (information whose provision to prospective parents is required by licence condition),
(ii)section 31 (register of information),
(iii)sections 31ZA to 31ZE (provision of information), and
(iv)Schedule 3 (consents to use or storage of gametes, embryos or human admixed embryos etc.), and
(b)section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (parental orders).”
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