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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 46. This is a technical amendment so that Clause 53(5), which lists enactments where express provision has been made for female second parents, can be modified by an order made under Clause 64, which provides for consequential and transitional provisions. Not to do so would mean that the general rule in Clause 53 (2), enabling references to fathers to be read as references to female second parents, would continue to apply to enactments even where express provision was made in those enactments for female second parents. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.