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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990

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31ZF Power of Authority to keep voluntary contact register

(1) In this section and section 31ZG, a “voluntary contact register” means a register of persons who have expressed their wish to receive information about any person to whom they are genetically related as a consequence of the provision to any person of treatment services in the United Kingdom before 1 August 1991. (2) The Authority may— (a) set up a voluntary contact register in such manner as it thinks fit, (b) keep a voluntary contact register in such manner as it thinks fit, (c) determine criteria for eligibility for inclusion on the register and the particulars that may be included, (d) charge a fee to persons who wish their particulars to be entered on the register, (e) arrange for samples of the DNA of such persons to be analysed at their request, (f) make such arrangements as it thinks fit for the disclosure of information on the register between persons who appear to the Authority to be genetically related, and (g) impose such conditions as it thinks fit to prevent a person (“A”) from disclosing information to a person to whom A is genetically related (“B”) where that information would identify any person who is genetically related to both A and B. (3) The Authority may make arrangements with any person by whom a voluntary contact register is kept before the commencement of this section for the supply by that person to the Authority of the information contained in the register maintained by that person.

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31ZF Power of Authority to keep voluntary contact register

(1) In this section and section 31ZG, a “voluntary contact register” means a register of persons who have expressed their wish to receive information about any person to whom they are genetically related as a consequence of the provision to any person of treatment services in the United Kingdom before 1 August 1991. (2) The Authority may— (a) set up a voluntary contact register in such manner as it thinks fit, (b) keep a voluntary contact register in such manner as it thinks fit, (c) determine criteria for eligibility for inclusion on the register and the particulars that may be included, (d) charge a fee to persons who wish their particulars to be entered on the register, (e) arrange for samples of the DNA of such persons to be analysed at their request, (f) make such arrangements as it thinks fit for the disclosure of information on the register between persons who appear to the Authority to be genetically related, and (g) impose such conditions as it thinks fit to prevent a person (“A”) from disclosing information to a person to whom A is genetically related (“B”) where that information would identify any person who is genetically related to both A and B. (3) The Authority may make arrangements with any person by whom a voluntary contact register is kept before the commencement of this section for the supply by that person to the Authority of the information contained in the register maintained by that person.

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