What the official record says
This Act is the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology (Storage) Amendment Act . This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent. This Act amends the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004. The purpose of this Act is to ensure that,— for the purpose of the prohibition against storing a human in vitro gamete or a human in vitro embryo for longer than the applicable period, any the gamete or embryo before the commencement, on 22 November 2004, of that prohibition : that prohibition is amended so that it becomes a prohibition against storing for longer than 6 months a human in vitro gamete or a human in vitro embryo that has been stored for the applicable period: for the purpose only of that prohibition, the period for which a human in vitro