The Human Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2014-10-29
State In force
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Made: 29th October 2014

Laid before Parliament: 7th November 2014

Coming into force: 15th December 2014

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Human Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 15th December 2014.

Amendment of the Human Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) Regulations 2007

2

In regulation 4 of the Human Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) Regulations 2007[^f00003] (references to Directives), in the definition of “the second Directive”, after “cells,” insert “as amended by Commission Directive 2012/39/EU[^f00004],”.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Jane Ellison — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Health — 29th October 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Human Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) Regulations 2007 (“Principal Regulations”) in order to transpose Commission Directive 2012/39/EU of 26 November 2012 amending Directive 2006/17/EC as regards certain technical requirements for the testing of human tissues and cells (“the Amending Directive”).

Regulation 2 amends the definition of “the second Directive” (Directive 2006/17/EC) in regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations to include the changes brought about by the Amending Directive.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2004/3037.

[^f00002]: 1972 c.68.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2007/1523. There are amendments not relevant to this instrument.

[^f00004]: OJ No L 327, 27.11.2012, p24.

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