New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN EMBRYOS (NEW SOUTH WALES) ACT 2003 - SECT 3

3 Object of Act

(1) The object of this Act is to adopt in this State a uniform Australian approach to the regulation of activities that involve the use of certain human embryos created by assisted reproductive technology or by other means.

(2) For that purpose, this Act:

(a) applies the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 of the Commonwealth as a law of this State, and

(b) makes provision to ensure that the Commonwealth Act and the applied law of this State are administered on a uniform basis by the Commonwealth as if they constituted a single law of the Commonwealth.