{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-safety-and-quality-regulations-2005/schedule/part-3/paragraph-1n3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-safety-and-quality-regulations-2005/schedule/part-3/paragraph-1n3.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": "schedule/part/3/paragraph/1n3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Acceptance criteria for donors of whole blood and blood components",
  "text": "Under exceptional circumstances, individual donations from donors who do not comply with following criteria may be authorised by a qualified healthcare professional in the blood establishment. All such cases must be clearly documented and subject to—\n(a) in relation to Great Britain, the requirements in regulation 7;\n(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, the quality management provisions in Articles 11, 12, and 13 of Directive 2002/98/EC.\nThe criteria in this paragraph do not apply to autologous donations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 Pt. 3 para. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Blood Safety and Quality (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/4), reg. 14 (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1304, regs. 1, 14); 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/schedule/part/3/paragraph/1n3",
    "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."
}