{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-safety-and-quality-regulations-2005/regulation-23A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-safety-and-quality-regulations-2005/regulation-23A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/50",
  "legislation_title": "The Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-safety-and-quality-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/23A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23A",
  "heading": "Regulations relating to the quality and safety of blood and blood components",
  "text": "(1) An appropriate authority in Great Britain may by regulations make provision in relation to—\n(a) standards and requirements relating to a quality system for blood establishments and hospital blood banks, including provision amending regulations 7(1)(b), 9(1)(b) and 13(a) in so far as those provisions relate to those standards and requirements;\n(b) information to be provided to donors of blood and blood components, including provision amending regulation 7(2)(a) and Part A of Part 2 of the Schedule;\n(c) information to be obtained from donors of blood and blood components, including provision amending regulation 7(2)(b) and Part B of Part 2 of the Schedule;\n(d) eligibility criteria for donors of blood and blood components, including provision amending regulation 7(2)(d) and Part 3 of the Schedule;\n(e) storage, transport and distribution requirements, including provision amending regulations 7(3)(b), 9(1)(h) and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 4 of the Schedule;\n(f) quality and safety requirements for blood and blood components, including provision amending regulation 7(3)(c) and Part 5 of the Schedule;\n(g) traceability requirements, including provision amending regulations 8, 9(1)(e) and Part 6 of the Schedule;\n(h) deferral criteria for donors of blood and blood components, including provision amending paragraphs 2.1 to 2.4 of Part 3 of the Schedule;\n(i) the requirements applicable to autologous transfusions, including provision amending paragraph 3 of Part 4 of the Schedule; and\n(j) the procedure for notifying serious adverse reactions and events and notification format, including provision amending regulation 12B and Parts 7 and 8 of the Schedule.\n(2) The provision that may be made in regulations under paragraph (1) includes provision to modify, or further modify, the Annex to Commission Directive 2005/62/EC as it applies by virtue of these Regulations.\n(3) In paragraph (1), “appropriate authority” means—\n(a) in relation to England, the Secretary of State;\n(b) in relation to Wales—\n(i) the Welsh Ministers; or\n(ii) the Secretary of State acting with the consent of the Welsh Ministers;\n(c) in relation to Scotland—\n(i) the Scottish Ministers; or\n(ii) the Secretary of State acting with the consent of the Scottish Ministers;\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) in relation to the whole of Great Britain, the Secretary of State acting with the consent of the Welsh Ministers and the Scottish Ministers",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 23A-23E inserted (31.12.2020) by The Blood Safety and Quality (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/4), regs. 1, 13 (as amended by S.I. 2020/1304, regs. 1, 13); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/50/regulation/23A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:11:46.706072+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}