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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-mitochondrial-donation-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-mitochondrial-donation-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111125816",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-mitochondrial-donation-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Permitted egg",
  "text": "An egg (“egg P”) is a permitted egg for the purposes of section 3(2)(b) of the Act if—\n(a) egg P results from the application of the process specified in regulation 4 to two eggs, each of which—\n(i) is a permitted egg as defined in section 3ZA(2) of the Act (not an egg which is a permitted egg by virtue of these regulations), and\n(ii) was extracted from the ovaries of a different woman;\n(b) that process has been applied to those eggs in the circumstances specified in regulation 5; and\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 3(2) was substituted by section 3(2) of the 2008 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 3ZA was inserted by section 3(5) of the 2008 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111125816/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:11:08.484773+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."
}