PROHIBITION OF HUMAN CLONING ACT 2002 NO. 144, 2002
PROHIBITION OF HUMAN CLONING ACT 2002 NO. 144, 2002
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1--PRELIMINARY
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Object of Act
4. Operation of Act
5. Act to bind the Crown
6. External Territories
7. Schedule
8. Definitions
PART 2--PROHIBITED PRACTICES
Division 1--Human cloning
9. Offencecreating a human embryo clone
10. Offenceplacing a human embryo clone in the human body or the body of an animal
11. Offenceimporting or exporting a human embryo clone
12. No defence that human embryo clone could not survive
Division 2--Other prohibited practices
13. Offencecreating a human embryo other than by fertilisation, or developing such an embryo
14. Offencecreating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman
15. Offencecreating or developing a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons
16. Offencedeveloping a human embryo outside the body of a woman for more than 14 days
17. Offenceusing precursor cells from a human embryo or a human fetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo
18. Offenceheritable alterations to genome
19. Offencecollecting a viable human embryo from the body of a woman
20. Offencecreating a chimeric or hybrid embryo
21. Offenceplacing of an embryo
22. Offenceimporting, exporting or placing a prohibited embryo
23. Offencecommercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or human embryos
PART 3--COMMONWEALTH/STATE ARRANGEMENTS
24. Operation of State laws
PART 4--REVIEW PROVISION AND REGULATIONS
Division 1--Review of Act
Division 2--Regulations
26. Regulations
SCHEDULE 1 - Consequential amendment