New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HUMAN CLONING FOR REPRODUCTION AND OTHER PROHIBITED PRACTICES ACT 2003

- As at 19 February 2008
- Act 20 of 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Object of Act
   4.      Definitions

   PART 2 - PROHIBITED PRACTICES

           Division 1 - Practices that are completely prohibited

   5.      Offence-placing a human embryo clone in the human body or the body of an animal
   6.      No defence that human embryo clone could not survive
   7.      Offence-creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman
   8.      Offence-creating or developing a human embryo by fertilisation that contains genetic material provided by more than 2 persons
   9.      Offence-developing a human embryo outside the body of a woman for more than 14 days
   10.     Offence-heritable alterations to genome
   11.     Offence-collecting a viable human embryo from the body of a woman
   12.     Offence-creating a chimeric embryo
   13.     Offence-developing a hybrid embryo
   14.     Offence-placing of an embryo
   15.     Offence-placing a prohibited embryo
   16.     Offence-commercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or human embryos

           Division 2 - Practices that are prohibited unless authorised by a licence

   17.     Offence-creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation, or developing such an embryo
   18.     Offence-creating or developing a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons
   18A.    Offence-using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human foetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo
   18B.    Offence-developing a hybrid embryo

   PART 3 - MISCELLANEOUS

   19.     Review of Act
   19A.    Further review of Act
   20.     Regulations