# Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, Paragraph 1ZB


(1) A licence under paragraph 1 cannot authorise any practice designed to secure that any resulting child will be of one sex rather than the other.
(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not prevent the authorisation of any testing of embryos that is capable of being authorised under paragraph 1ZA.
(3) Sub-paragraph (1) does not prevent the authorisation of any other practices designed to secure that any resulting child will be of one sex rather than the other in a case where there is a particular risk that a woman will give birth to a child who will have or develop—
(a) a gender-related serious physical or mental disability,
(b) a gender-related serious illness, or
(c) any other gender-related serious medical condition.
(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3), a physical or mental disability, illness or other medical condition is gender-related if the Authority is satisfied that—
(a) it affects only one sex, or
(b) it affects one sex significantly more than the other.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/37/schedule/2/paragraph/1ZB (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-1990/schedule-2/paragraph-1ZB
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