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Regulation 3 Permitted egg

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An egg (“egg P”) is a permitted egg for the purposes of section 3(2)(b)f1 of the Act if—

(a)

egg P results from the application of the process specified in regulation 4 to two eggs, each of which—

(i)

is a permitted egg as defined in section 3ZA(2)f2 of the Act (not an egg which is a permitted egg by virtue of these regulations), and

(ii)

was extracted from the ovaries of a different woman;

(b)

that process has been applied to those eggs in the circumstances specified in regulation 5; and

(c)

there have been no alterations in the nuclear or mitochondrial DNA of egg P since egg P was created by means of the application of that process.

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Footnotes

f1

Section 3(2) was substituted by section 3(2) of the 2008 Act.

f2

Section 3ZA was inserted by section 3(5) of the 2008 Act.