Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

HUMAN CLONING AND EMBRYO RESEARCH ACT 2004 - SECT 7

    (1)     In this Act:

"human embryo clone" means a human embryo that is a genetic copy of another living or dead human, but does not include a human embryo created by the fertilisation of a human egg by human sperm.

    (2)     To establish that a human embryo clone is a genetic copy of a living or dead human—

        (a)     it is sufficient to establish that the set of genes in the nuclei of the cells of the living or dead human has been copied; and

        (b)     it is not necessary to establish that the copy is an identical genetic copy.

    (3)     A human embryo that results from the technological process known as embryo splitting is taken not to be created by a process of fertilisation of a human egg by human sperm.