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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-regulations-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3217",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-regulations-1992",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "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—\n(a) mutagenesis;\n(b) the construction and use of somatic hybridoma cells (for example for the production of monoclonal antibodies);\n(c) cell fusion (including protoplast fusion) of plant cells where the resulting organisms can also be produced by traditional breeding methods;\n(d) self-cloning of non-pathogenic naturally occurring micro-organisms which fulfil the criteria of Group I for recipient micro-organisms; and\n(e) self-cloning of non-pathogenic naturally occurring organisms other than micro-organisms which fulfil the criteria of Part III of Schedule 2.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3217/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:08:32.086650+00:00"
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  "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."
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