HUMAN CLONING FOR REPRODUCTION AND OTHER PROHIBITED PRACTICES ACT 2003 - As at 29 June 2018 - 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