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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

My Lords, I have one brief point also about subsection (7). It provides that, "““it does not appear to the researcher that the donor has indicated any objection””." If there is a challenge by someone to the researcher’s subjective opinion about that, is there any way in which that could be examined by an independent body or authority? I am rather anxious about a researcher, hotfoot and full of enthusiasm for his research, looking at this without anybody having the power to look into it and saying that they had had another look and the research was right, or that the research was quite wrong and there was some evidence of objection.