HUMAN CLONING FOR REPRODUCTION AND OTHER PROHIBITED PRACTICES ACT 2003 - As at 29 June 2018 - Act 20 of 2003
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