Exemption in relation to blood banking service provided by clinical laboratory service licensees and acute hospital service licensees
5.—(1)  Section 8 of the Act does not apply in relation to the provision of a blood banking service by a person who —
(a)holds a valid licence to provide a clinical laboratory service;
(b)is approved to provide transfusion medicine for the clinical laboratory service; and
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(c)only carries out any one or more of the following activities in the provision of the blood banking service, for the purpose of providing the clinical laboratory service:
(i)testing of blood or blood components;
(ii)processing of blood or blood components;
(iii)distribution of blood or blood components;
(iv)storage of blood or blood components incidental to any activity mentioned in sub‑paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii).
(2)  Section 8 of the Act does not apply in relation to the provision of a blood banking service by a person who holds a valid licence to provide an acute hospital service and only carries out any one or more, but not all, of the following activities in relation to blood or blood components for therapeutic transfusion, in the provision of the acute hospital service:
(a)collection of blood or blood components;
(b)distribution of blood or blood components;
(c)storage of blood or blood components incidental to any activity mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a) or (b).
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(3)  Section 8 of the Act does not apply in relation to the provision of a blood banking service by a person who holds a valid licence to provide an acute hospital service, and provides the blood banking service only to enable the therapeutic transfusion of blood or blood components collected from an individual (A) to either of the following individuals in the provision of the acute hospital service:
(a)A;
(b)another individual specified by A.
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