For the purposes of sections 17C to 17F, a person (“P”) meets the general conditions if—
at the time of P’s birth, P’s mother—
was not married, or
was married to a person other than P’s natural father;
no person is treated as the father of P under—
section 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, or
section 35 or 36 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008;
no person is treated as a parent of P under section 42 or 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008; and
P has never been a British overseas territories citizen or a British Dependent Territories citizen.