{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-1990/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-1990/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/37",
  "legislation_title": "Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-1990",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Licences for treatment, storage and research.",
  "text": "(1) The Authority may grant the following and no other licences—\n(a) licences under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to this Act authorising activities in the course of providing treatment services,\n(aa) licences under paragraph 1A of that Schedule authorising activities in the course of providing non-medical fertility services,\n(b) licences under that Schedule authorising the storage of gametes, embryos or human admixed embryos, and\n(c) licences under paragraph 3 of that Schedule authorising activities for the purposes of a project of research.\n(2) Paragraph 4 of that Schedule has effect in the case of all licences.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 11(1)(aa) inserted (25.5.2007 for certain purposes, otherwise 5.7.2007) by The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Quality and Safety) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1522), regs. 1, 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(1)(b) substituted (1.10.2009) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22), ss. 11(1), 68(2); S.I. 2009/2232, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 11 wholly in force at 1.8.1991 see s. 49(2) and S.I. 1991/1400, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/37/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:58.103804+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}