(Except clauses 4, 11, 14 and 23, schedule 2, and any new clauses or new schedules relating to the termination of pregnancy by registered medical practitioners) - Clause 29
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]
Amendment proposed [this day]: No. 173, in clause 29, page 33, line 20, at end insert—
‘(10B) It is a defence for a person (“the defendant”) charged with an offence of doing anything which, under section 3(1) or (1A), 4(1)(a) or 4A(2), cannot be done other than in pursuance of a licence, to prove that at the material time the defendant believed on reasonable grounds that what they did was not something to which the Act applied.’.—[Dr. Harris.]