Clause 2 - Consequential and retrospective provision
Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Bill
12:45 pm
Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South, Labour)
We are dealing with the registration of birth, not the registration of storage. Storage can be for any period up to 39 years, so it would be very difficult to introduce legislation to cover it. The Bill is concerned with storage only when it leads to conception. Storage is not relevant to the purpose of the Bill, which is registration.
Amendment agreed to.
Amendments made: No. 3, in page 3, line 45, at end insert
``and before the coming into force of this Act.''.—[Mr. Clarke.]
No. 4, in page 4, line 23, at end add—
``( ) Where the child concerned was born before the coming into force of this Act, section 28 of the Act of 1990 shall have effect as if—
(a) subsection (5DD) were omitted; and
(b) in subsection (5DE), for the words ``42 days or (as the case may be) 21 days'' there were substituted ``three months''.''.—[Mr. Clarke.]
Question proposed, That the clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill.