Paragraph 3
These Regulations shall not apply to the following techniques of genetic modification if they do not involve the use of genetically modified organisms as recipient or parental organisms—
(a)
mutagenesis;
(b)
the construction and use of somatic hybridoma cells (for example for the production of monoclonal antibodies);
(c)
cell fusion (including protoplast fusion) of plant cells where the resulting organisms can also be produced by traditional breeding methods;
(d)
self-cloning of non-pathogenic naturally occurring micro-organisms which fulfil the criteria of Group I for recipient micro-organisms; and
(e)
self-cloning of non-pathogenic naturally occurring organisms other than micro-organisms which fulfil the criteria of Part III of Schedule 2.