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Mr David Amess

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Schedule  8,  page  104,  leave out lines 2 to 3.

Dawn Primarolo

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Clause  67,  page  52,  line  9,  at end insert—

‘( )	Subsection (2) is subject to paragraph A1(2) of Schedule 6.’.

Dr John Pugh

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Clause  68,  page  52,  line  28,  at end insert—

‘(2A)

This section shall be subject to section (prohibition on placing human gametes

into animals).’.

Dawn Primarolo

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Clause  69,  page  52,  line  31,  leave out subsection (2).

new clauses not relating to the termination of pregnancy by registered

medical practitioners

Birth certificates in cases involving assisted reproduction

Mark Simmonds

Mr Andrew Lansley

Robert Key

NC1

To move the following Clause:—

‘The Secretary of State shall by regulation make provision for the birth certificate

of a person born as a consequence of—

(a)	treatment services other than basic partner treatment services, or

(b)	the procurement and distribution of any sperm (other than partner-

donated sperm that has not been stored) in the course of providing non-

medical fertility services,

to indicated these facts, either through—

(a)	a symbol to denote the fact of donor conception, or

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(b)	the provision of a detailed birth certificate to include the fact of donor

conception and an abridged certificate that does not.’.

Extension of statutory storage period for treatment of blood relatives

Andrew Stunell

Dr Evan Harris

NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Statutory Storage Period) Regulations

(S.I. 1991/1540) are amended as follows.

(2)	In regulation 2(1) for “paragraph (2)” substitute “paragraphs (2) and (2A)”.

(3)	After regulation 2(2) insert—

“(2A)

The circumstances referred to in paragraph (1) are that the gametes were

provided by a person who has given written consent for them to be used

by another person—

(a)	who is a blood relative of the person providing the gametes,

(b)	whose fertility was, in the written opinion of a registered medical

practitioner, significantly impaired on the date on which the

gametes were provided, and

(c)	who was aged under 45 on the date on which the gametes were

provided.”.’.

Donation of umbilical cord blood

Mr David Burrowes

Mark Durkan

Mr Andrew Dismore

David Taylor

Mr Lee Scott

Robert Key

NC3

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to—

(a)	encourage women to donate their umbilical cord blood after birth;

(b)	increase the awareness of the value of umbilical cord blood for the

treatment of diseases and for further research of new treatment methods;

using cord blood stem cells;

(c)	promote the collection of cord blood from specific shortage groups,

including minority groups including mixed race families where there is a

history of diseases, treatable by cord blood.

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(2)	It shall be a requirement for doctors to inform pregnant women of the benefits of

collection and storage of cord blood.’.

Meaning of ‘cloning’

Mr David Amess

NC4

To move the following Clause:—

‘( )	In section 2(1) of the 1990 Act (other terms) after the definition of “basic partner

treatment services” insert—

“cloning”   means   a   human   being    reproduced   artificially    from    the     donor

cell/s of another human being (alive or dead), termed the “donor” to

produce another human being closely resembling or being genetically

identical to, or similar to the donor.’.

Further general functions of Authority

Dr Brian Iddon

Dr Desmond Turner

Dr Ian Gibson

NC5

To move the following Clause:—

‘In section 8(1) of the 1990 Act (general functions of the Authority) after

paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa)

give advice or make submissions to the Parliamentary Human

Fertilisation and Embryology Committee established under

section (Parliamentary Human Fertilisation and Embryology

Committee) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act

2008,”.’.

Parliamentary Human Fertilisation and Embryology Committee

Dr Brian Iddon

Dr Desmond Turner

Dr Ian Gibson

NC6

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	There shall be a Committee of Members of both Houses of Parliament, to be

called the Parliamentary Human Fertilisation and Embryology Committee, to

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consider human fertilisation, embryology and related ethical issues, and to make

recommendations.

(2)	The Committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to

report from time to time, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply

information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity

within the Committee’s order of reference.

(3)	The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Committee shall consist of fifteen

members of the House of Lords nominated by the Lord Speaker and fifteen

members of the House of Commons nominated by the Speaker of the House of

Commons, to be appointed on the passing of this Act to serve for the duration of

the present Parliament and thereafter to be appointed at the commencement of

each Parliament to service for the duration of that Parliament.

(4)	Any causal vacancy occurring by the reason of the death, resignation, or

incapacity of a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Committee

shall be filled by the nomination of a member by the Lord Speaker or the Speaker

of the House of Commons, as the case may be.

(5)	The powers and duties of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Committee

may be exercised and discharged by any twelve members thereof, and the

Committee shall be entitled to sit and transact business whether Parliament be

sitting or not, and notwithstanding a vacancy in the membership of the

Committee.

(6)	Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology

Committee may regulate its own procedure.’.

Prohibition on placing human gametes into animals

Dr John Pugh

NC7

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	The Secretary of State shall by regulations make it an offence to place any human

gamete into an animal.

(2)	Sections 3 and 4 of this Act shall not come into force until regulations under

subsection (1) have been made.’.

Dawn Primarolo

That certain written evidence already reported to the House be appended to the

proceedings of the Committee.

Order of the House [12th MAY 2008]

That the following provisions apply to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill

[Lords]:

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Commital

1.	The following shall be committed to a Committee of the whole House—

(a)	Clauses 4, 11, 14, and 23 and Schedule 2;

(b)	any new Clauses or new Schedules relating to the termination of

pregnancy by registered medical practitioners.

2.	The remainder of the Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee.

Proceedings in Committee

3.	Proceedings in Committee of the whole House shall be completed in two

days.

4.	Those proceedings shall be taken on each of those days as shown in the first

column of the following Table and in the order so shown.

5.	The proceedings on each of those days shall (so far as not previously

concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the times specified in the second

column of the Table.

TABLE

	Proceedings	Time for conclusion of proceedings
	First day
	Clause 4	Three hours after the commencement
		of proceedings on the Bill
	Clause 11 and Schedule 2	Three hours after the commencement
		of proceedings on Clause 11

	Second day
	Clause 14 and 23	Three hours after the commencement
		of proceedings on the Bill
	Any new Clauses or new Schedules	Three hours after the commencement
	relating to the termination of	of proceedings on any such new
	pregnancy by registered medical	Clauses or new Schedules
	practioners

6.	Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to the

proceedings in Committee of the whole House.

7.	Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously

concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Tuesday 17th June 2008.

8.	The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on

which it meets.

9.	When the provisions of the Bill considered, respectively, by the Committee

of the whole House and by the Public Bill Committee have been reported to

the House, the Bill shall be proceeded with as if it had been reported as a

whole to the House from the Public Bill Committee.

Consideration and Third Reading

10.	Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the

day on which those proceedings are commenced.

11.	Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

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brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

12.	Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to

proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

Other proceedings

13.	Any other proceedings on the Bill (inlcuding any proceedings on

consideration of any message from the Lords) may be programmed.

Order of the Committee [3rd June 2008]

That—

(1)	the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday

3rd June) meet—

(a)	at 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 3rd June;

(b)	at 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Thursday 5th June;

(c)	at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 10th June;

(d)	at 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Thursday 12th June;

(e)	at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 17th June;

(2)	the proceedings shall be taken in the following order: Clauses 1 to 3; Clause

5; Schedule 1; Clauses 6 to 10; Clauses 12 and 13; Schedules 3 and 4; Clauses

15 to 22; Clauses 24 to 28; Schedule 5; Clauses 29 to 56; Schedule 6; Clauses

57 to 65; Schedule 7; Clause 66; Schedule 8; Clauses 67 to 69; new Clauses

(not relating to the termination of pregnancy by registered medical

practitioners); new Schedules (not relating to the termination of pregnancy by

registered medical practitioners); remaining proceedings on the Bill.

(3)	the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a

conclusion at 7.00 p.m. on Tuesday 17th June.

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Revised 12 June 2008