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Section 49.
1 In section 25 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 (interpretation), at the end of the definition of “excluded” there is added “to section 27 of the [1987 c. 42.] Family Law Reform Act 1987 and to sections 27 to 29 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990”.
2 In section 25(1) of the Social Security Act 1975 (widowed mother’s allowance), for the words from “or” after paragraph (b) to the end there is substituted “or
(c) if the woman and her late husband were residing together immediately before the time of his death, the woman is pregnant as the result of being artificially inseminated before that time with the semen of some person other than her husband, or as the result of the placing in her before that time of an embryo, of an egg in the process of fertilisation, or of sperm and eggs.”.
3 In section 25(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 (widowed mother’s allowance), at the end there is inserted “or
(c) if the woman and her late husband were residing together immediately before the time of his death, the woman is pregnant as the result of being artificially inseminated before that time with the semen of some person other than her husband, or as the result of the placing in her before that time of an embryo, of an egg in the process of fertilisation, or of sperm and eggs.”.
4 In section 15 of the Adoption Act 1976 (adoption by one person), in subsection (3)(a) (conditions for making an adoption order on application of one parent), after “found” there is inserted “or, by virtue of section 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, there is no other parent”.
5 In Article 13 of the Family Law Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (interpretation), at the end of the definition of “excluded” there is added “and to sections 27 to 29 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990”.
6 In section 15 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (adoption by one person), in subsection (3)(a) (conditions for making an adoption order on application of one parent), after “found” there is inserted “or, by virtue of section 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, there is no other parent”.
7 In Article 15 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (adoption by one person), in paragraph (3)(a) (conditions for making an adoption order on the application of one parent), after “found” there is inserted “or, by virtue of section 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, there is no other parent”.
8 Sections 27 to 29 of this Act do not apply for the purposes of section 2 of the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989 (restrictions on transplants between persons not genetically related).
9 Sections 27 to 29 of this Act do not apply for the purposes of Article 4 of the Human Organ Transplants (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (restrictions on transplants between persons not genetically related).
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990