
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Statutory Storage Period) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st August 1991.
2 

(1) In the circumstances specified in paragraph (2) below, section 14(3) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (statutory storage period in respect of gametes) shall have effect in respect of any gametes as if for ten years there were substituted the appropriate period specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.
(2) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (1) are that the gametes were provided by a person—
(a) whose fertility since providing them has or is likely to become, in the written opinion of a registered medical practitioner, significantly impaired,
(b) who was aged under 45 on the date on which the gametes were provided, and
(c) who does not consent to the gametes' being used for the purpose of providing treatment services to persons other than that person, or that person and another together, and never has so consented while the gametes were ones to which this regulation applied.
William Waldegrave
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
8th July 1991
SCHEDULE
Regulation 2(1)

The appropriate period mentioned in Regulation 2(1) in respect of any gametes is the period of years specified in the second column of this Schedule corresponding to the age, specified in the first column of this Schedule, of the person who provided the gametes on the date on which they were provided.

Column 1 Column 2
Age of person providing gametes on date when they were provided: Appropriate period (in years):
16 or under 39
17 38
18 37
19 36
20 35
21 34
22 33
23 32
24 31
25 30
26 29
27 28
28 27
29 26
30 25
31 24
32 23
33 22
34 21
35 20
36 19
37 18
38 17
39 16
40 15
41 14
42 13
43 12
44 11
