Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024
Provisions supplementary to section 19 - relevant storage (G), relevant storage (E) or relevant storage (T) in case of two intending parents | ||
22. (1) This section applies without prejudice to the generality of section 151 . | ||
(2) The specified form of a section 19 consent shall, in the case of two intending parents who as a couple wish to effect a relevant storage (G) of their own gametes, a relevant storage (E) of their own embryos, or a relevant storage (T) of their own tissues, or any combination thereof, for use in their AHR treatment only, require each of the intending parents to separately— | ||
(a) confirm that he or she has received the AHR information document concerned, | ||
(b) subject to sections 40 , 41 and 42 , specify the maximum period for which the gametes, embryos or tissues, or any combination thereof, may be stored, | ||
(c) specify what should be done with the unused gametes, embryos or tissues, or any combination thereof, if he or she subsequently— | ||
(i) lacks the capacity to make a decision in that regard, or | ||
(ii) dies, | ||
and | ||
(d) specify what should be done with the unused gametes, embryos or tissues, or any combination thereof, in the case of post factum differences of opinion or changes of circumstances. |