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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.      Offence—creating a human embryo clone  
   10.     Offence—placing a human embryo clone in the human body or the body of an animal  
   11.     Offence—importing or exporting a human embryo clone  
   12.     No defence that human embryo clone could not survive  

           Division 2--Other prohibited practices

   13.     Offence—creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation, or developing such an embryo  
   14.     Offence—creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman  
   15.     Offence—creating or developing a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons  
   16.     Offence—developing a human embryo outside the body of a woman for more than 14 days  
   17.     Offence—using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human fetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo  
   18.     Offence—heritable alterations to genome  
   19.     Offence—collecting a viable human embryo from the body of a woman  
   20.     Offence—creating a chimeric or hybrid embryo  
   21.     Offence—placing of an embryo  
   22.     Offence—importing, exporting or placing a prohibited embryo  
   23.     Offence—commercial 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