SCHEDULE 2 Activities for which licences may be granted
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (1990 c 37) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 2 Activities for which licences may be granted

Section 11 etc

Licences for treatment

1

(1)     A licence under this paragraph may authorise any of the following in the course of providing treatment services—

(a)     bringing about the creation of embryos in vitro,

[(b)     procuring, keeping, testing, processing or distributing embryos,

(c)     procuring, testing, processing, distributing or using gametes]

[(ca)     using embryos for the purpose of training persons in embryo biopsy, embryo storage or other embryological techniques,]

(d)     [other] practices designed to secure that embryos are in a suitable condition to be placed in a woman . . .,

(e)     placing any [permitted embryo] in a woman,

(f)     mixing sperm with the egg of a hamster, or other animal specified in directions, for the purpose of testing the fertility or normality of the sperm, but only where anything which forms is destroyed when the test is complete and, in any event, not later than the two cell stage, and

(g)     such other practices[, apart from practices falling within section 4A(2),] as may be specified in, or determined in accordance with, regulations.

(2)     Subject to the provisions of this Act, a licence under this paragraph may be granted

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