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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-research-purposes-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/188",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-research-purposes-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Further purposes for which research licences may be authorised",
  "text": "(1) The Authority may issue a licence for research under paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the Act for any of the purposes specified in the following paragraph.\n(2) A licence may be issued for the purposes of—\n(a) increasing knowledge about the development of embryos;\n(b) increasing knowledge about serious disease, or\n(c) enabling any such knowledge to be applied in developing treatments for serious disease.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/188/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:06:23.510349+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."
}