SCHEDULE 3 Consent to Use or Storage of Gametes, Embryos or Human Admixed Embryos etc
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (2008 c 22) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 3 Consent to Use or Storage of Gametes, Embryos or Human Admixed Embryos etc

Section 13

Introductory

1

Schedule 3 to the 1990 Act (giving of consent to use or storage of gametes or embryos) is amended as follows.

2

In the title to that Schedule, for “OF GAMETES OR EMBRYOSâ€, substitute “OR STORAGE OF GAMETES, EMBRYOS OR HUMAN ADMIXED EMBRYOS ETCâ€.

General requirements as to consent

3

For paragraph 1 substitute—

“1

(1)     A consent under this Schedule, and any notice under paragraph 4 varying or withdrawing a consent under this Schedule, must be in writing and, subject to sub-paragraph (2), must be signed by the person giving it.

(2)     A consent under this Schedule by a person who is unable to sign because of illness, injury or physical disability (a “person unable to signâ€), and any notice under paragraph 4 by a person unable to sign varying or withdrawing a consent under this Schedule, is to be taken to comply with the requirement of sub-paragraph (1) as to signature if it is signed at the direction of the person unable to sign, in the presence of the person unable

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