Consent for Use of Human Reproductive Material and In Vitro Embryos Regulations (SOR/2007-137)

• 16.1 (1) Despite section 4.1 and subsection 16(1), a person may make use of human reproductive material obtained before December 1, 2007, to create an embryo for a purpose mentioned in any of paragraphs 4(1)(c) to (e) without having obtained the required consent from a donor who donated the material on the condition of anonymity if the person making use of the embryo has a document signed by the person who originally obtained the written consent of the donor, attesting that the donor provided written consent, dated prior to December 1, 2007, for that use.

• (2) Despite sections 13.1 and 13.2 and subsection 16(2), a person may make use of an in vitro embryo created before December 1, 2007, for a purpose mentioned in any of paragraphs 16(2)(a) to (c) without having obtained the required consent from the donors referred to under the applicable paragraph who donated the embryo or the human reproductive material on the condition of anonymity if the person making use of the embryo has for each of those donors, a document signed by the person who originally obtained the written consent of the donor, attesting that the donor provided written consent, dated prior to December 1, 2007, for that use.

• (3) Despite section 4.1 and subsection 16(3), a person may make use of an in vitro embryo created after December 1, 2007, for a purpose referred to in that subsection, using human reproductive material obtained before that date without having obtained the required consent from the donors who donated the material on the condition of anonymity if the person making use of the embryo has, for each of those donors, a document signed by the person who originally obtained the written consent of the donor attesting that the donor provided written consent, dated prior to December 1, 2007, for that use.

Coming into Force

17 These Regulations come into force on December 1, 2007.