Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024

PART 10

Licences

Chapter 1

Grant or refusal of licence and related matters

Application for grant of licence

153. (1) Subject to subsection (4), a person may make an application in the specified form, accompanied by the specified fee, to the AHRRA for the grant of a licence to undertake the relevant activity the subject of the application at the premises specified in the application.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (3) or section 151 , a licence application may require any information to be provided in relation to any of the matters to which the AHRRA shall have regard to by virtue of section 154.

(3) Where a licence application is made to the AHRRA, it may, by notice in writing given to the applicant, require the applicant to provide in the specified form such additional information in relation to any matter to which the application relates as the AHRRA reasonably considers necessary to assist it to determine the application.

(4) A person who is a body corporate may not make a licence application unless it is—

(a) a company,

(b) an EEA company within the meaning of Part 21 of the Act of 2014, or

(c) a public body.

(5) A licence application may relate to two or more relevant activities.