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Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Thursday 5th June 2008

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s):

 

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] Committee 127-139

 

Public Bill Committee


 

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]

 

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


 

to the termination of pregnancy by registered medical practitioners)


 

Mr Tom Clarke

 

152

 

Clause  60,  page  50,  line  1,  leave out from ‘(2)’ to end of line 2 and insert ‘after “or

 

human embryos”, insert “but includes human admixed embryos”.’.

 

Mr Tom Clarke

 

153

 

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

 

Mr Tom Clarke

 

154

 

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

 

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’.


 
 

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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill[Lords], continued

 
 

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.”.’.

 

Mark Simmonds

 

159

 

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

 

Mark Simmonds

 

160

 

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

 

Dr Evan Harris

 

161

 

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

 

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


 
 

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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill[Lords], continued

 
 

(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’.

 

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)’.

 

Dr Evan Harris

 

169

 

Clause  54,  page  46,  line  20,  after ‘applicants’, insert ‘(or in the case of a single

 

person, the applicant)’.

 

Dr Evan Harris

 

170

 

Clause  54,  page  47,  line  10,  after ‘by’, insert ‘a single person or by’.

 

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’.

 

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’.

 

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

 

174

 

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

 


 
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