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House of Commons

Tuesday 10th June 2008

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Other Amendments not tabled within the required notice period are marked thus

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]

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(Except Clauses 4, 11, 14 and 23, Schedule 2, and any new Clauses or new Schedules relating

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to the termination of pregnancy by registered medical practitioners)

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Note

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the

Committee [3rd June 2008].

Mark Simmonds

38

Clause  25,  page  26,  line  4,  at end insert—

‘(za)

the disclosure is made—

(i)	on clinical grounds, as part of the patient’s medical care, to a

practitioner who is bound by the ordinary duty of patient

confidentiality, or

(ii)	in order to ensure the safety of medical treatment which the

patient is to receive outside of licensed premises.’.

Dawn Primarolo

45

Clause  25,  page  26,  leave out lines 22 to 41 and insert—

‘(g)	the disclosure is made so that no individual can be identified from the

information,

(h)	the disclosure is of information other than identifying donor information

and is made with the consent required by section 33AB,’.

Dawn Primarolo

46

Clause  25,  page  26,  line  41,  at end insert—

‘(ja)

the disclosure—

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(i)	is made by a person who is satisfied that it is necessary to make

the disclosure to avert an imminent danger to the health of an

individual (“P”),

(ii)	is of information falling within section 31(2)(a) which could be

disclosed by virtue of paragraph (h) with P’s consent or could be

disclosed to P by virtue of subsection (10), and

(iii)

is made in circumstances where it is not reasonably practicable

to obtain P’s consent,’.

Dr Evan Harris

150

Clause  25,  page  27,  line  27,  at end insert—

‘(v)	the disclosure is made in order to ensure the safety of medical treatment

which the patient is to receive outside of licensed premises.’.

Dr Evan Harris

151

Clause  25,  page  27,  line  27,  at end insert—

‘(v)	the disclosure is made, on clinical grounds, as part of the patient’s

medical care, to a practitioner who is bound by the ordinary duty of

patient confidentiality.’.

Dawn Primarolo

47

Clause  25,  page  27,  leave out lines 38 to 50.

Dawn Primarolo

48

Clause  25,  page  28,  leave out lines 1 and 2.

Dawn Primarolo

49

Clause  25,  page  28,  line  7,  leave out from ‘of’ to ‘or’ in line 12 and insert

‘identifying donor information,’.

Dawn Primarolo

50

Clause  25,  page  28,  leave out lines 18 to 30.

Dawn Primarolo

51

Clause  25,  page  28,  line  36,  leave out ‘treated together with another’ and insert

‘who is treated together with, or gives a notice under section 37 or 44 of the Human

Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 in respect of, another’.

Dawn Primarolo

52

Clause  25,  page  28,  leave out lines 39 and 40.

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Dawn Primarolo

53

Clause  25,  page  28,  line  45,  at end insert—

‘( )	In this section “identifying donor information” means information enabling a

person to be identified as a person whose gametes were used in accordance with

consent given under paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 for the purposes of treatment

services or non-medical fertility services in consequence of which an identifiable

individual was, or may have been, born.’.

Dawn Primarolo

54

Clause  25,  page  28,  line  45,  at end insert—

‘33AB

Consent required to authorise certain disclosures

(1)	This section has effect for the purposes of section 33A(2)(h).

(2)	Subject to subsection (5), the consent required by this section is the

consent of each individual who can be identified from the information.

(3)	Consent in respect of a person who has not attained the age of 18 years

(“C”) may be given—

(a)	by C, in a case where C is competent to deal with the issue of

consent, or

(b)	by a person having parental responsibility for C, in any other

case.

(4)	Consent to disclosure given at the request of another shall be disregarded

unless, before it is given, the person requesting it takes reasonable steps

to explain to the individual from whom it is requested the implications of

compliance with the request.

(5)	In the case of information which shows that any identifiable individual

(“A”) was, or may have been, born in consequence of treatment services,

the consent required by this section does not include A’s consent if the

disclosure is necessarily incidental to the disclosure of information

falling within section 31(2)(a).

(6)	The reference in subsection (3) to parental responsibility is—

(a)	in relation to England and Wales, to be read in accordance with

the Children Act 1989;

(b)	in relation to Northern Ireland, to be read in accordance with the

Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;

(c)	in relation to Scotland, to be read as a reference to parental

responsibilities and parental rights within the meaning of the

Children (Scotland) Act 1995.’.

Mark Simmonds

37

Clause  25,  page  28,  leave out line 46 to line 8 on page 29.

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Mark Simmonds

155

Clause  27,  page  31,  line  13,  leave out ‘revocation or’.

Mark Simmonds

156

Clause  27,  page  31,  line  26,  at end insert ‘set out in regulations laid in draft before

and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.’.

Mark Simmonds

157

Clause  27,  page  31,  line  38,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘must’.

Mark Simmonds

158

Clause  29,  page  32,  line  25,  at end insert—

‘(4A)

After subsection (4) insert—

“(4A)

A person convicted under subsection (1)(2) or (3) of this section shall be

prohibited from being granted a licence for any of the activities licensed

under this Act for a period of five years from the date of their

conviction.”.’.

Dr Evan Harris

173

Clause  29,  page  33,  line  20,  at end insert—

‘(10B)

It is a defence for a person (“the defendant”) charged with an offence of doing

anything which, under section 3(1) or (1A), 4(1)(a) or 4A(2), cannot be done

other than in pursuance of a licence, to prove that at the material time the

defendant believed on reasonable grounds that what they did was not something

to which the Act applied.’.

Dr Evan Harris

119

Clause  30,  page  34,  line  12,  at end insert ‘section 3ZA(5A)’.

Dawn Primarolo

55

Clause  30,  page  34,  line  14,  leave out ‘4A(5)(e) or (10)’ and insert ‘4A(4A) or

(10)’.

Dr Evan Harris

174

Clause  30,  page  34,  line  14,  at end insert ‘section 20A; section 20B;’.

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Dawn Primarolo

56

Clause  30,  page  34,  line  21,  leave out ‘, 3(5)’.

Mr Tom Clarke

153

Clause  31,  page  34,  line  32,  leave out paragraph (a).

Dawn Primarolo

57

Clause  31,  page  34,  leave out lines 34 and 35.

Dr Evan Harris

171

Clause  35,  page  36,  line  19,  after ‘then’, insert ‘unless W is a surrogate mother

within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 and’.

Dawn Primarolo

58

Clause  40,  page  39,  line  15,  leave out ‘a’ and insert ‘the’.

Dr Evan Harris

172

Clause  42,  page  40,  line  4,  after ‘then’, insert ‘unless W is a surrogate mother

within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985’.

Mr Tom Clarke

154

Clause  45,  page  41,  line  4,  leave out subsection (1).

Mark Simmonds

159

Clause  48,  page  43,  line  4,  leave out paragraph (b).

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Mark Simmonds

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Clause  48,  page  43,  line  9,  leave out paragraph (b).

Dawn Primarolo

59

Clause  48,  page  43,  line  13,  at end insert—

‘(5A)

In relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland, a child who—

(a)	has a parent by virtue of section 42, or

(b)	has a parent by virtue of section 43 who is at any time during the period

beginning with the time mentioned in section 43(b) and ending with the

time of the child’s birth a party to a civil partnership with the child’s

mother,

is the legitimate child of the child’s parents.’.

Dawn Primarolo

60

Clause  50,  page  44,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘( )	The reference in section 48(5A)(b) to a civil partnership includes a reference to a

void civil partnership if either or both of the parties reasonably believed at the

time when they registered as civil partners of each other that the civil partnership

was valid; and for this purpose it is to be presumed, unless the contrary is shown,

that one of them reasonably believed at that time that the civil partnership was

valid.’.

Mark Simmonds

175

Clause  52,  page  44,  line  34,  leave out subsection (2).

Dawn Primarolo

61

Clause  53,  page  45,  line  16,  at end insert—

‘( )	the Schedule to the Population (Statistics) Act 1938 (c. 12),’.

Dr Evan Harris

161

Clause  54,  page  45,  line  41,  leave out ‘made by two people (“the applicants”)’.

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Dr Evan Harris

162

Clause  54,  page  45,  line  42,  after second ‘the’, insert ‘applicant or’.

Dr Evan Harris

163

Clause  54,  page  46,  line  1,  after ‘not’, insert ‘the applicant or’.

Dr Evan Harris

164

Clause  54,  page  46,  line  4,  after first ‘of’, insert ‘the applicant or’.

Dr Evan Harris

165

Clause  54,  page  46,  line  7,  leave out subsection (2) and insert—

‘(2A)

An application for a parental order may by made by—

(a)	a couple or

(b)	one person who is not married or a civil partner.

(2B)	In this section, a couple means—

(a)	a married couple or

(b)	civil partners or

(c)	two people (whether of different sexes or the same sex) who are living

together in an enduring family relationship and who are not within the

prohibited degrees of relationship to each other.

(2C)	A parental order may be made on the application of one person who is married or

is a civil partner if the court is satisfied—

(a)	that the person’s spouse or civil partner cannot be found,

(b)	the spouses or civil partners have separated and are living apart and the

separation is likely to be permanent, or

(c)	the person’s spouse or partner is by reason of ill health, whether physical

or mental, incapable of making an application for a parental order.’.

Dr Evan Harris

166

Clause  54,  page  46,  line  13,  after first ‘the’, insert ‘applicant or’.

Mark Simmonds

176

Clause  54,  page  46,  line  16,  leave out subsection (4).

Dr Evan Harris

167

Clause  54,  page  46,  line  17,  after second ‘the’, insert ‘applicant or’.

Dr Evan Harris

168

Clause  54,  page  46,  line  18,  after ‘applicants’, insert ‘(or in the case of a single

person, the applicant)’.

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