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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-2008/section-47",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/22",
  "legislation_title": "Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-2008",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Woman not to be other parent merely because of egg donation",
  "text": "A woman is not to be treated as the parent of a child whom she is not carrying and has not carried, except where she is so treated—\n(a) by virtue of section 42 or 43, or\n(b) by virtue of section 46 (for the purpose mentioned in subsection (4) of that section), or\n(c) by virtue of adoption.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/22/section/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:47.450526+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."
}