Regulation 8 Permitted embryo: circumstances

The circumstances referred to in regulation 6(b) are that—

(a)

the Authority has issued a determination that—

(i)

there is a particular risk that any embryo which is created by the fertilisation of an egg extracted from the ovaries of a woman named in the determination may have mitochondrial abnormalities caused by mitochondrial DNA; and

(ii)

there is a significant risk that a person with those abnormalities will have or develop serious mitochondrial disease; and

(b)

embryo B was created by the fertilisation of an egg extracted from the ovaries of the woman so named.