Regulation 31 Basic partner treatment services: inspections
This regulation applies where—
immediately before the initial commencement date, a person who was before that date using gametes for the purpose of providing basic partner treatment services either—
does not hold a licence under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act, or
holds a licence under that paragraph which would not authorise the use of gametes for that purpose after the main commencement date, and
before the main commencement date, that person applies for a licence under that paragraph authorising the use of gametes for that purpose, or a variation of a licence that will authorise the use of gametes for that purpose.
In a case to which this regulation applies, section 9(7) (licence committees and other committees) of the 1990 Act (which requires a licence committee to arrange for an inspection of premises where a licensable activity is to be carried out before considering a licence application) shall be read as providing the Authority with power to inspect such premises before granting or varying a licence before the main commencement date, but not as placing a duty on it to do so.
Where, in a case to which this regulation applies—
either–
a licence is granted under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act, or
a licence granted under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act is varied,
before the main commencement date, and
any premises on which the activities governed by the 1990 Act are carried out were not inspected on behalf of a licence committee before the licence was so granted or varied,
a licence committee shall arrange for such premises to be inspected on its behalf before the end of the period of two years beginning with the day the licence or variation (as the case may be) is granted.