Regulation 8 Ethical approval for the purposes of regulations 3 to 6

the research is in connection with disorders, or the functioning, of the human body,

there are reasonable grounds for believing that research of comparable effectiveness cannot be carried out if the research has to be confined to, or relate only to, persons who have capacity to consent to taking part in it, and

there are reasonable grounds for believing that research of comparable effectiveness cannot be carried out in circumstances such that the person carrying out the research is not in possession, and not likely to come into possession, of information from which the person from whose body the defined material has come can be identified.

in relation to ethical approval for the purposes of regulations 3(2)(e) and 4(2)(c), means the relevant material involved in an activity of a kind mentioned in section 1(1)(d) or (f) of the Act, and

in relation to ethical approval for the purposes of regulations 5(2)(e) and 6(2)(c), means the bodily material in relation to which an analysis of DNA is to be carried out.