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| | 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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| | [First and Second Sittings]
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| | | (1) | the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday |
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| | | (a) | at 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 3rd June; |
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| | | (b) | at 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Thursday 5th June; |
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| | | (c) | at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 10th June; |
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| | | (d) | at 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Thursday 12th June; |
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| | | (e) | at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 17th June; |
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| | | (2) | the proceedings shall be taken in the following order: Clauses 1 to 3; Clause |
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| | | 5; Schedule 1; Clauses 6 to 10; Clauses 12 and 13; Schedules 3 and 4; Clauses |
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| | | 15 to 22; Clauses 24 to 28; Schedule 5; Clauses 29 to 56; Schedule 6; Clauses |
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| | | 57 to 65; Schedule 7; Clause 66; Schedule 8; Clauses 67 to 69; new Clauses |
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| | | (not relating to the termination of pregnancy by registered medical |
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| | | practitioners); new Schedules (not relating to the termination of pregnancy by |
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| | | registered medical practitioners); remaining proceedings on the Bill. |
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| | | (3) | the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a |
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| | | conclusion at 7.00 p.m. on Tuesday 17th June. |
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| | | That, subject to the discretion of the Chairman, any written evidence received by the |
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| | | Committee shall be reported to the House for publication. |
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| | Clause 1, page 1, line 10, after second ‘embryo’, insert ‘where fertilisation is |
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| | Clause 1, page 1, line 14, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(c) | for this purpose fertilisation is not complete until the appearance of a two |
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| | Clause 1, page 2, line 5, leave out from second ‘eggs’ to ‘but’ in line 6. |
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| | Clause 1, page 2, line 10, leave out from second ‘sperm’ to ‘and’ in line 11. |
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| | Clause 1, page 2, line 12, leave out ‘be read accordingly’ and insert ‘live human |
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| | Clause 1, page 2, leave out lines 13 to 21. |
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| | Clause 1, page 2, line 13, leave out subsection (5). |
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| | Clause 1, page 2, line 14, leave out ‘or’ and insert ‘and’. |
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| | Clause 1, page 2, line 15, after ‘medicine’, insert ‘taking account of the bioethical |
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| | considerations of such developments’. |
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| | Clause 1, page 2, line 16, after ‘section 4A’, insert ‘and section 3ZA’. |
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| | Clause 3, page 3, line 1, leave out subsection (5). |
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| | Clause 3, page 3, line 7, at the end insert ‘except when the egg has in prescribed |
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| | circumstances undergone a prescribed process designed to prevent the transmission of |
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| | serious or life-threatening mitochondrial diseases.’. |
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| | Clause 3, page 3, leave out lines 19 to 24. |
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| | Clause 3, page 3, line 24, at end insert ‘but this process must be by exchange of |
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| | gamete pronuclei not by transfer of somatic cell nuclei, and regulations must not be |
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| | permitted to be drafted until this procedure is reasonably considered to be safe.’. |
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| | Clause 3, page 3, line 24, at end insert ‘but regulations cannot allow a permitted |
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| | egg or embryo to be created, altered or derived from somatic cell nuclear transfer.’. |
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| | Clause 3, page 3, line 24, at end insert ‘but regulations may not be permitted to be |
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| | drafted until the specific procedure is reasonably considered to be safe, and the permitted |
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| | egg or embryo may not be created, altered or derived from somatic cell nuclear transfer.’. |
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| | Clause 3, page 3, line 24, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(5A) | Regulations may provide that— |
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| | | (a) | an egg can be a permitted egg, or |
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| | | (b) | a sperm can be a permitted sperm, even though the egg or sperm has been |
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| | | developed from one or more human cells in a prescribed process |
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| | | designed to treat infertility. |
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| | | (5B) | Regulations under subsection (5A) may— |
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| | | (a) | provide that any sperm be developed from one or more cells of a genetic |
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| | | male and any egg be derived from one or more cells of a genetic female. |
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| | | (b) | specify, or otherwise restrict, the nature of the infertility which the |
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| | | prescribed process is intended to treat.’. |
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| | Clause 3, page 3, line 29, leave out subsection (6) and insert— |
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| | | (a) | A person who places in a woman a human embryo which has been |
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| | | created otherwise than by fertilisation is guilty of an offence. |
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| | | (b) | A person who is guilty of the offence specified in paragraph (a) is liable |
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| | | on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 |
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| | | years or a fine or both.’. |
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| | Clause 3, page 3, line 29, leave out subsection (6) and insert— |
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| | | ‘(6) | The Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001 (c. 23) (which is not superseded by |
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| | | the preceding provisions of this section) continues to have effect with the |
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| | | (a) | In section 1 (the offence) in subsection (1) after “fertilisation” insert “of |
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| | | a permitted egg with a permitted sperm to create a permitted embryo”. |
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| | | (b) | After section 2 insert section 3: |
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| | | Reference to a “permitted egg”, “permitted sperm” or “permitted |
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| | | embryo” (which includes the singular and the plural), is a |
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| | | reference to the term as defined in section 3ZA (1) to (4) of the |
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| | | Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.”’. |
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| | Clause 3, page 3, line 29, leave out subsection (6). |
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| | Clause 3, page 3, line 30, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(7) | In this Act or in this section, a permitted egg, permitted sperm or permitted |
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| | | embryo may not be created, altered or derived by or from— |
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| | | (b) | genetic modification, |
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| | | (c) | artificial gametes, or |
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| | | (d) | somatic cell nuclear transfer.’. |
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| | Schedule 1, page 54, line 4, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(za) | at end of sub-paragraph (2) insert— |
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| | | | “and no person may be appointed for more than six years in |
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| | Schedule 1, page 54, line 17, at end add— |
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| | | ‘4 | In sub-paragraph 8(2), after “experience”, insert “in at least one of the |
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| | | activities that may be licensed under this Act”. |
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| | Clause 6, page 5, line 21, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(2a) | After each mention of “embryos” insert “and hybrid embryos”.’. |
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| | Clause 6, page 5, line 35, leave out subsection (3). |
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| | Page 6, line 11, leave out Clause 8. |
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| | Page 8, line 3, leave out Clause 10. |
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| | Clause 12, page 8, leave out line 31 and insert— |
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| | | ‘(1) | Section 12 of the 1990 Act (general conditions of licences under that Act) is |
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| | Clause 12, page 8, line 37, at end insert— |
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| | | (a) | omit the “and” at the end of paragraph (a), and |
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| | | (b) | at the end of paragraph (b) insert “, and |
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| | | (c) | every licence under paragraph 3 of that Schedule, so far |
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| | | as authorising activities in connection with the |
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| | | derivation from embryos of stem cells that are intended |
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| | | for human application.”.’. |
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| | | Clause, as amended, Agreed to. |
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| | [Adjourned till Thursday 5th June at 9.00 a.m. |
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