Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024

SCHEDULE 6

Types of Conditions that AHRRA May Attach to Licence Authorising Undertaking of ESC Research or that are Deemed to be Attached to such Licence

Section 156

PART 1

Types of Conditions that AHRRA may Attach to Licence

1. A provision requiring the holder of a licence to give notice in writing to the AHRRA of any change in circumstances that a reasonable person would consider might be a change in circumstances—

(a) that will or may adversely affect, in a material way, the undertaking of the ESC research authorised by the licence, or

(b) that, if the holder did not hold that licence and were to make a licence application for a licence in the like terms, the provisions in Part 10 , as in force at the time that the licence was granted, would prevent the AHRRA from granting a licence in such terms to the holder.

2. A condition that the holder of a licence shall not import embryonic stem cell lines or induced pluripotent stem cell lines for use in ESC research.

3. Any type of condition specified, for the purposes of this paragraph, in regulations made under section 156 (3).

PART 2

Conditions Deemed to be Attached to Licence

1. A condition that the holder of a licence continues to be a fit and proper person to hold the licence.

2. A condition that the holder of a licence shall not develop or maintain an embryo in vitro beyond the 14th day of its development following fertilisation but excluding any period during which the development of the embryo has been suspended.

3. A condition specified, for the purposes of this paragraph, in regulations made under section 156 (3).