Clause 30
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]
4:35 pm
Mark Simmonds (Shadow Minister, Health; Boston and Skegness, Conservative)
I shall ask a couple of brief questions to make sure that I understand the changes that the Minister is proposing in the Government amendments. Do the consequential amendments mean that the exercise of every regulation-making power in the Bill has to be ratified by an affirmative resolution of Parliament, or are there different categories of regulation? It is not necessary to provide the information now—the Minister can give it in writing—but it would be helpful for the Committee to understand which regulation-making powers in the Bill have to be resolved by Parliament through affirmative powers and which do not.
I have a specific question about amendment No. 57. As the Minister has just explained, I understand that the removal of the term human admixed embryo—leaving out lines 34 and 35—removes the regulation-making power to change the definition of human admixed embryos, but how does that relate to the regulation-making power under section 4A(10) and amend section 4A(5) of the 1990 Act, which relate to human admixed embryos? I understood that that meant that the Government could change the definition of a human admixed embryo. Or does the regulation-making power in new section 45A(2)(b), inserted by clause 31, override sections 4A(10) and section 4A(5)?