{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-mitochondrial-donation-regulations-2015/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-mitochondrial-donation-regulations-2015/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/572",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-mitochondrial-donation-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Permitted egg: circumstances",
  "text": "The circumstances referred to in regulation 3(b) are that—\n(a) the Authority has issued a determination that—\n(i) there is a particular risk that any egg extracted from the ovaries of a woman named in the determination may have mitochondrial abnormalities caused by mitochondrial DNA; and\n(ii) there is a significant risk that a person with those abnormalities will have or develop serious mitochondrial disease; and\n(b) egg B was extracted from the ovaries of the woman so named.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 29.10.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/572/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:44:01.800607+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."
}