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Regulation 6 Permitted embryo

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

(a)

embryo P results from the application of the process specified in regulation 7 to two embryos, each of which—

(i)

is a permitted embryo as defined in section 3ZA(4) of the Act (not an embryo which is a permitted embryo by virtue of these regulations), and

(ii)

was created by the fertilisation of a permitted egg as defined in section 3ZA(2) of the Act (not an egg which was a permitted egg by virtue of these regulations) extracted from the ovaries of a different woman;

(b)

that process has been applied to those embryos in the circumstances specified in regulation 8; and

(c)

since embryo P was created by means of the application of that process—

(i)

there have been no alterations in the nuclear or mitochondrial DNA of any cell of embryo P, and

(ii)

no cell has been added to embryo P other than by the division of embryo P’s own cells.